A History of the Church in the Middle Ages

by LOGAN; F DONALD

• ISBN13: 9780415132893
• ISBN10: 0415132894
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-06-14
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This work offers a unique perspective on the legacy and influence of the Christian church in Western culture. Never fixed or static, the church experienced remarkable periods of change between the sixth and sixteenth centuries. Saint Francis of Assisi, the gentle poverello of Umbria, the martyr Thomas Becket, the ill-fated lovers Abelard and Heloise, the visionary Hildegard of Bingen, all testify to the diversity and richness of the medieval church. In this fascinating survey, Donald Logan introduces the reader to the Christian church, from the conversion of the Celtic and Germanic peoples through to the discovery of the New World. He reveals how the church unified the people of Western Europe as they worshipped with the same ceremonies and used Latin as the language of civilized communication. From the crusades to the creation of magnificent architecture,A History of the Church in the Middle Agesexplores the central role of the church in determining a thousand years of history.

Table of Contents

List of plates	xi
List of maps	xii
List of figures	xii
Preface	xiii
Introduction	1	(2)
The pre-medieval church	3	(10)
The apostolic church	4	(1)
The spread of Christianity	5	(3)
The persecutions: a historical problem	8	(1)
Constantine, controversy and conversion	9	(3)
Further reading	12	(1)
The beginning of the Middle Ages	13	(17)
The Germans	14	(6)
Conversion of the Franks	20	(1)
Catholic Spain	21	(1)
Conversion of the Irish	22	(6)
Further reading	28	(2)
Justinian and Mohammed	30	(17)
Justinian's achievements	30	(3)
Justinian and the law	33	(1)
Justinian and church buildings	33	(3)
The Lombards	36	(1)
Islam	37	(1)
The land of Mohammed	37	(1)
The Prophet	38	(1)
The Koran	39	(3)
Conquests	42	(3)
Further reading	45	(2)
The scene is set: St Gregory the Great to St Boniface	47	(24)
Gregory the Great	47	(4)
Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons	51	(8)
The transmission of learning	59	(4)
English mission to the Continent	63	(6)
Further reading	69	(2)
Church, Carolingians and Vikings	71	(19)
Franco-papal alliance	71	(5)
The Carolingians and church practice	76	(4)
The Vikings	80	(8)
Further reading	88	(2)
The church in disarray, c.850-c.1050	90	(15)
Pope Nicholas I (858-67)	92	(5)
Pope Formosus (891-96)	97	(3)
Pope John XII (955-64)	100	(2)
Pope Benedict IX (1032-45;?1047-48)	102	(2)
Further reading	104	(1)
Reform, the East, crusade	105	(26)
Eleventh-century reform	105	(11)
The Eastern church	116	(2)
The First Crusade	118	(11)
Further reading	129	(2)
The twelfth century	131	(21)
Popes arid anti-popes and emperors	133	(3)
New religious orders	136	(9)
Popular devotion and practical piety	145	(5)
Further reading	150	(2)
Three twelfth-century profiles	152	(32)
Peter Abelard (c. 1079-1142)	152	(10)
Thomas Becket (c. 1120-1170)	162	(12)
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)	174	(8)
Further reading	182	(2)
The age of Innocent III	184	(18)
The political Innocent	185	(3)
The Fourth Crusade (1202-04)	188	(5)
The Fourth Lateran Council (1215)	193	(8)
Further reading	201	(1)
The emergence of dissent and the rise of the friars	202	(23)
Dissent	202	(11)
The friars	213	(10)
Further reading	223	(2)
Two legacies: universities and cathedrals	225	(29)
Universities	225	(10)
Cathedrals	235	(16)
Appendix: medieval cathedrals: a select list	251	(2)
Further reading	253	(1)
Developments and fulfilments: the later thirteenth century	254	(21)
Popes and kings	254	(10)
Reconquista	264	(9)
Further reading	273	(2)
Death and purgatory	275	(22)
Black Death	275	(12)
The emergence of purgatory	287	(8)
Further reading	295	(2)
Exile in Avignon and aftermath	297	(18)
The Popes and Avignon	297	(11)
Two elections and the coming of schism	308	(6)
Further reading	314	(1)
The Great Schism	315	(17)
The road to Pisa	315	(6)
The road to Constance	321	(5)
Wyclif and Hus	326	(2)
Back to Constance	328	(2)
Further reading	330	(2)
The fifteenth century	332	(19)
Popes and councils	332	(8)
Christian piety	340	(10)
Further reading	350	(1)
Epilogue: 1492: the anatomy of a year	351	(3)
List of popes, 500-1500	354	(3)
Index	357