The Medieval Synthesis: Religion, Society, and Culture
Joseph P. Huffmann
This historical survey of medieval European Christianity from the eighth through fifteenth century gives particular attention to multiple religious movements and their forms spirituality which produced not one but three distinct syntheses religion, society, culture. These were each in turn attempts at building a shared community faith often called Christendom, however proved elusively temporal nature thus repeatedly need reform renewal as context for Christendom changed over time.