Ebook: A History of the Church in the Middle Ages

The pre-medieval church -- The beginning of the Middle Ages -- Justinian and Mohammed -- The scene is set: St. Gregory the Great to St. Boniface -- Church, Carolingians and Vikings -- The church is disarray, c.850-c.1050 -- Reform, the East, crusade -- The twelfth century -- Three twelfth-century profiles -- The age of Innocent III -- The emergence of dissent and the rise of the friars -- Two legacies: universities and cathedrals -- Developments and fulfilments: the later thirteenth century -- Death and purgatory -- Exile in Avignon and aftermath -- The Great Schism -- The fifteenth century -- Epilogue: 1492: the anatomy of a year.