The Western church in the Middle Ages / John A.F. Thomson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomson, John A. F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--Church history--600-1500.

Europe.

Church history.

Physical Description:

viii, 293 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Arnold ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Summary:

From its origins in the ancient world as a rival to traditional paganism, Christianity has grown to become one of the greatest religions the world has ever known. How the church took over spiritual control of Western Europe to become the very foundation of medieval life -- setting a moral agenda for all of society and dominating its intellectual pursuits -- is the guiding inquiry at the heart of this book. Covering the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Reformation, this account is structured in three chronological blocks: the gradual development of unity within the Western Church up to the eleventh century; the centralization phase between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries; and the break-up of the centralization of power in the later Middle Ages.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-267) and index.

ISBN:

0340719087

0340601183

OCLC:

38542717