Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages
Richard Southern
Preface List of Abbreviations 1. Church and Society 2. The Divisions Time I. Primitive Age, c. 700-c. 1050 II. Age Growth, 1050-c. 1300 main development rise limits clerical supremacy positive achievement III. Unrest, 1300-c. 1550 changing environment Political change reaction 3. Christendom Seeds Disunity Divergent habits separation Doctrinal differences Two Churches Search for Reunion military way political package deal understanding Regression 4. Papacy Vicar St. Peter supreme temporal lord Christ growth business primacy power lawyer-popes Inflationary Spiral, 1520 Indulgences International politics struggle benefices 5. Bishops Archbishops Carolingian Order Its Break-Up formation a bishop break-up the ideal in Service Pope An archbishop northern France England A Germany episcopal family Italy 6. Religious Orders Benedictines Rule centuries greatness Change decay New Augustinian canons Cistercians Friars Aims origins Growth 7. Fringe Anti-Orders General Environment behaviour crowds influence women religious life Confusion Tongues beguines Cologne brethren Deventer its neighbourhood Epilogue Popes, 590-153Index