This course presents the history of medieval Christianity, its development across the centuries and its theological and spiritual thought. Encompassing approximately one thousand years between the end of late antiquity and the century of the Reformation, it is the most extensive part within the cycle of five courses covering the history of Christianity from the time of the apostles up to the present. The Middle Ages are the period in which Christianity spread beyond the borders of the Roman Empire to the north and east and became associated with Celtic, Germanic and Slavic peoples, a factor which left a profound imprint on religion and society. Numerous monasteries were founded in an initially pagan environment, and new centers of Christian piety and Christian theology emerged shaping the culture of Europe for centuries. The middle ages gave rise to a papacy which perceived itself as supreme authority not only in spiritual but als in temporal matters. However, the middle ages are also the period of numerous schisms, conflicts and wars, including the Crusades. After the philosophical and theological climax of Scholasticism church and society in the West fell into a deep crisis which led to the emergence of various spiritual and theological reform movements and eventually prepared the ground for the Reformation.
K. Madigan, Medieval Christianity : A New History, New Haven 2015; The Routledge History of Medieval Christianity: 1050 – 1500, ed. R.N. Swanson, London 2015; The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity, ed. J.H. Arnold, Oxford 2014; The Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 3: Early Medieval Christianities, c. 600 – c. 1100, ed. T.F.X. Noble and J.M.H. Smith, Cambridge 2008; The Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 4: Christianity in Western Europe c. 1100-c. 1500, ed. M. Rubin and W. Simons, Cambridge 2009; Medieval Religion: A Sourcebook, ed. R. Anderson and D.A. Bellenger, London 2007; M. Deanesly, A History of the Medieval Church 590–1500, London – New York 1989.
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