Western society and the Church in the Middle Ages
Harmondsworth, England : Penguin Books, 1981. Ninth Edition. Near-fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #233165
ISBN: 0140205039
Series; Pelican history of the church, 2. Physical description; 376 pages : maps ; 18 cm. Contents; Church and society -- The divisions of time. The primitive age, (c. 700-c. 1050) ; The age of growth, (c. 1050-c. 1300) ; The age of unrest, (c. 1300-c. 1550) -- The divisions of Christendom. The seeds of disunity ; The two churches ; The search for reunion -- The papacy. The primitive age, (c. 700-c. 1050) ; The age of growth, (c. 1050-c. 1300) ; The inflationary spiral, (c. 1300-c. 1520) -- Bishops and archbishops. The Carolingian church order and its break-up ; Bishops in the service of the pope -- The religious orders. The Benedictines ; The new orders ; The friars -- Fringe orders and anti-orders. The general environment ; A confusion of tongues -- Epilogue -- List of popes, (590-1513). Summary; St. Anselm - Astrology - St. Augustine - St. Thomas A'Becket - St. Benedict - Byzantine Empire - Crusades - Dominicans (origin of) ; St. Francis - Heresy - Thomas Aquinas - Women in Religion - Women and the church. Subjects; Church history -- Middle Ages, (600-1500). Civilization, Medieval.
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