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One, holy, Catholic, and apostolic : a history of the Church in the Middle Ages

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  • Author: Madden, Thomas F.
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2011
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    Copyrighted
    2006
    Summary:

    In this course, Thomas F. Madden explores the compelling events that shaped the culture and forever altered history, from the Monophysite Controversy to reform movements to the Inquisition, Black Death, and Great Schism. This is a history populated with larger-than-life characters and notorious personages such as Charlemagne, Pope Innocent III, and the Knights Templar.

    Contents:
    • Birth of the Medieval Church
    • The Church in an age of chaos
    • In the year 1000: a tour across a Medieval ecclesiastical landscape
    • The faith of the Medieval Church
    • The eleventh-century reform movement
    • The flowering of the twelfth century
    • The age of Pope Innocent III
    • Cathedral and university
    • Heresy and inquisition
    • Coming of the Friars
    • The apogee of papal monarchy in the thirteenth century
    • In the time of the Black Death
    • The Avingon papacy and the return to Rome
    • The Great Schism and the question of reform.
    Genre:
    History and geography, Religion and spirituality
    Subject(s): Church history | Middle Ages, 600-1500
    Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, MD, [Prince Frederick, Md.], Recorded Books, [Distributed by] OneClick Digital
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781456100230