A history of the Church
Subtitle: The church and the world the church created
By: Philip Hughes
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Sheed and Ward
Published: 1979
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 463
ISBN-13: 9780567467065
Subjects: Catholic; Christianity; RELIGION; Church history; Catholic Church; History
Other titles: Church and the world the church created
Description: This second volume concentrates on the West from the time of Constantine's conversion, when the the Church was beginning to make a world of its own, and it pursues the Church's history in this world of its making to the end of the thirteenth century, when the high point was reached and a new secular order was already appearing.
Notes: This ed. originally published: 1948.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-446) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: The church in the west during the last century of the imperial unity, 313-430; title: The church and the disruption of the imperial unity, 395-537; title: St. Gregory the Great and the beginning of restoration; title: The church and the Carolingian Empire, 714-814; title: The siege of Christendom, 814-1046; title: The restoration of spiritual independence, 1046-1123; title: The age of St. Bernard, 1123-1181; title: The crisis of the Middle Ages, 1181-1198; title: Innocent III and the Catholic reactions, 1198-1216; title: The thirteenth century : achievement and problems, 1216-1274.