Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages

內容簡介

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.