The Medieval Church: A Brief History

by Lynch,Joseph

• ISBN13: 9780582494671
• ISBN10: 0582494672
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1992-10-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Church was the central institution of the European Middle Ages, and the foundation of medieval life. Professor Lynch's admirable survey (concentrating on the western church, and emphasising ideas and trends over personalities) meets a long-felt need for a single-volume comprehensive history, designed for students and non-specialists.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	x
Preface	xi
Ancient Christianity	1	(18)
Christian origins	2	(3)
Catholic Christianity	5	(3)
Persecution	8	(2)
Normative Christianity	10	(7)
The beginnings of monasticism	17	(2)
The Beginnings of the Medieval Church	19	(16)
The decline of the Roman Empire	20	(1)
Byzantine Christianity	21	(1)
Islam	22	(2)
The Latin west	24	(1)
Gregory the Great	24	(5)
Monasticism	29	(6)
The Conversion of the West (350-700)	35	(19)
Conversion of the invaders	36	(6)
The conversion of the Franks	42	(3)
Christianity in Ireland	45	(3)
The conversion of the Anglo-Saxons	48	(2)
The Roman missionaries	50	(2)
The Irish missionaries	52	(2)
The Papal-Frankish Alliance	54	(11)
The Anglo-Saxon missions	54	(5)
The Frankish mayors of the palace	59	(2)
The papacy	61	(2)
The Papal-Frankish alliance of 751	63	(2)
The Church in the Carolingian Empire	65	(19)
The new Europe	65	(1)
The restoration of order	66	(6)
The reform of the ordo of the secular clergy	72	(5)
The reform of the ordo of the regular clergy	77	(3)
The reform of the ordo of the laity	80	(4)
The Carolingian Renaissance	84	(13)
Cultural decline	84	(3)
The court school	87	(2)
Cathedral schools	89	(1)
Monastic schools	90	(1)
The seven liberal arts	91	(3)
Books and handwriting	94	(3)
The Collapse of the Carolingian World	97	(19)
Civil wars	97	(2)
Invasions	99	(3)
The east Frankish kingdom (Germany)	102	(2)
The west Frankish kingdom (France)	104	(1)
The papacy and Italy	105	(2)
Signs of revival	107	(1)
Monastic reform: Cluny	108	(5)
Missionary successes	113	(1)
The revival of canon law	114	(2)
The Church in the Year 1000	116	(20)
Diversity and unity	116	(2)
Church structures: the king	118	(4)
Church structures: the pope	122	(1)
Church structures: the bishop	123	(3)
Church structures: the parish	126	(3)
Church structures: religious houses	129	(3)
Church structures: the dissenters	132	(4)
The Eleventh-Century Reforms	136	(15)
The Synod of Sutri	136	(1)
Moderate reform	137	(3)
Radical reform	140	(1)
Pope Gregory VII	141	(4)
The consequences of reform	145	(6)
The Rise of Christendom	151	(17)
The growth of population	152	(4)
Economic growth	156	(1)
The bonds of unity	157	(1)
Christendom	158	(1)
The crusades	159	(2)
Hostility to outsiders	161	(3)
Western and eastern Christians	164	(4)
The Age of the Papacy	168	(15)
The canon law	169	(3)
Papal exercise of power	172	(3)
Church councils	175	(1)
Papal appointments to church offices	176	(2)
Papal finances	178	(5)
The New Testament Revival	183	(14)
The Old Testament	183	(3)
The New Testament	186	(6)
The apostolic life	192	(3)
Wandering preachers	195	(1)
Hermits	196	(1)
Monastic Life: The Twelfth Century	197	(19)
Cluny	197	(2)
The reformed Benedictines: Cistercians	199	(7)
The Carthusians	206	(1)
The warrior monks	207	(2)
The regular canons	209	(1)
The servants of the sick	210	(2)
Women in religious life	212	(4)
The Heretics	216	(12)
From wandering preachers to monastic communities	216	(2)
The Waldensians	218	(4)
The Cathars	222	(3)
The Albigensian Crusade	225	(1)
The inquisition	226	(2)
The Friars	228	(11)
Francis of Assisi	228	(6)
Franciscan women	234	(1)
The third order of St Francis	235	(1)
The Dominicans	235	(1)
Friars and secular clergy	236	(3)
The Schools	239	(17)
Monastic schools (800-1150)	241	(1)
Monastic culture	242	(1)
Cathedral schools	243	(3)
Petr Abelard	246	(2)
The universities (1180-1300)	248	(5)
Teaching	253	(3)
The Framework of the Christian Life	256	(17)
The story of human salvation	256	(3)
The creation	259	(1)
The fall of mankind and angels	260	(1)
Satan	260	(3)
The process of redemption	263	(1)
The incarnation	264	(1)
The church	265	(1)
The last judgement	266	(1)
Purgatory	267	(1)
The saints	268	(5)
The Sacramental Life	273	(30)
Baptism	274	(4)
Confirmation	278	(2)
Eucharist	280	(4)
Penance	284	(4)
Extreme unction	288	(1)
Marriage	289	(4)
Holy orders	293	(4)
Beyond the seven sacraments	297	(5)
Conclusion	302	(1)
The Late Medieval Background	303	(12)
Population	304	(2)
The Black Death	306	(5)
Warfare and violence	311	(3)
Continuity	314	(1)
The Late Medieval Church	315	(21)
Boniface VIII and Philip the Fair	320	(3)
The popes at Avignon (1309-78)	323	(5)
The Great Schism (1378-1414)	328	(3)
Conciliarism	331	(5)
Epilogue	336	(10)
Monastic life	339	(2)
Humanism	341	(2)
The state and religion	343	(2)
Printing	345	(1)
Suggested Reading	346	(13)
Glossary	359	(8)
Maps	367	(8)
Index	375