History of the Christian Church: The Middle Ages, A.D. 1049-1294 (Vol. 5)

by Philip Schaff

Hardcover, 1960

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Excerpt from History of the Christian Church, Vol. 5: Part II, the Middle Ages, From Boniface VIII, 1294, to the Protestant Reformation, 1517 Above all, the author feels it to be a great privilege that he has been able to realize the hope which Dr. Philip Schaff expressed in the last years of his life, that his History of the Christian Church which, in four volumes, had traversed the first ten centuries and, in the sixth and seventh, set forth the progress of the German and Swiss Reformations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.… (more)

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Eerdmans Pub Co (1960)

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Schaff's 5th volume covers the Middle Ages from A.D. 1049-1294 providing vignettes of information that I'm not sure you would find in books today on Christian history. He is also more objective, while not necessarily being sympathetic, than I thought a Protestant could be when discussing Roman
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Catholicism, which is the subject of the bulk of the book covering Popes, contests between secular kings and Popes, Monasticism, the Crusades, the Inquisition, the education, religious thought and doctrines (about which I found pages 700 to the end of the book an enlightening read), etc.

Although this book was originally published in 1907, I think it still may shed light on Christian history in the Middle Ages that we might otherwise miss.
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