Author: SOUTHERN, R. W
Title: Western society and the Church in the Middle Ages
Description: 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.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. ISBN: 0140205039. Weight in Kg appr.:

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