The Church in the Later Middle Ages: The I.B.Tauris History of the Christian Church
Tanner, Norman P.
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2008. Hardcover. Cloth. 8vo. 198 pp. Fine. Dust Jacket is Fine. Seller Inventory # C46230
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Title: The Church in the Later Middle Ages: The ...
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Like New
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
About this title
The Later Middle Ages (1300-1500 CE) have often been characterised as a period of decline for Christendom. The era seems to sit uncomfortably between the remarkable achievements of church and society in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and the revivals of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in the sixteenth century. The period has even been called a 'Babylonian Captivity' for the Church, echoing the struggles of the Israelites in exile, and reflecting the transferral of the papacy to Avignon in 1309.Norman Tanner challenges this negative view, examining a vibrant period of ecclesiastical history in its own right rather than just through the lenses of the centuries that preceded and succeeded it. He discusses the trials of the age in the form of the papal schism between 1378-1417, the heresies of Cathars, Lollards and Hussites, the Hundred Years' War, and the terror of the Black Death. Yet he focuses, too, on the great ecumenical councils, the flowering of intellectual life in the Renaissance and the extraordinarily rich spirituality of mystics like Julian of Norwich, Catherine of Siena and Meister Eckhart.
What comes to light in this lively and readable volume is that the later medieval age was actually one of extraordinary achievement for the Church: of deepening and enrichment, as well as of schism and conflict.
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