description: Francis Oakley addresses late-medieval church history in its own terms, pointing out not only discontinuities but also continuities with earlier medieval experience. "By doing so," he writes, "I hope to have avoided the distortions and refractions that occur when that history is seen too obsessively through the lens of the Reformation."
language: English
title: The Western Church in the Later Middle Ages
titlecomplete: The Western Church in the Later Middle Ages
genres: Nonfiction, Church History, Religion, Medieval, History
ratings_count: 17
publisher: Cornell University Press