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| Document Type: | Book |
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F Donald Logan |
| ISBN: | 0415132886 9780415132886 0415132894 9780415132893 |
| OCLC Number: | 49901973 |
| Description: | xiv, 368 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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 in 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. |
| Responsibility: | F. Donald Logan. |
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'For its humane and learned approach to its enormous canvas, as well as for the cogency with which it penetrates at speed to the essentials of a vanished historical epoch, this History of the Church in the Middle Ages deserves a very wide audience indeed.' - English Historical Review 'To have written a scholarly and very readable history of the Western Church over a millennium, all in the space of 353 pages, is a remarkable tour de force, for which Donald Logan is to be warmly congratulated.' - The Tablet "This is an excellent example of a textbook designed primarily for use in the classroom and for general readers. It is conceptually well organized, stylistically clear, intellectually thoughtful, and pedagogically useful." -- Thomas Head, Speculum Read more...
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