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By Norman P Tanner

ISBN-10: 1845114388

ISBN-13: 9781845114381

What involves gentle during this energetic and readable quantity is that the later medieval age was once really one in all awesome success for the Church : of deepening and enrichment, in addition to of schism and clash. but the Later heart a while (1300-1500 CE) have usually been characterized as a interval of decline for Christendom. The period turns out to sit down uncomfortably among the extraordinary achievements of church and society within the 12th and 13th centuries, and the revivals of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation within the 16th century. The interval has even been referred to as a 'Babylonian Captivity' for the Church, echoing the struggles of the Israelites in exile, and reflecting the transferral of the papacy to Avignon in 1309. Writing with attribute mastery of the assets, Norman Tanner demanding situations this damaging view, reading a colourful interval of ecclesiastical heritage in its personal correct instead of simply in the course of the lenses of the centuries that preceded and succeeded it. He discusses the pains of the age within the kind of the papal schism among 1378-1417, the heresies of Cathars, Lollards and Hussites, the Hundred Years' conflict, and the phobia of the Black loss of life. but he focuses, too, at the nice ecumenical councils, the flowering of highbrow existence within the Renaissance and the terribly wealthy spirituality of mystics like Julian of Norwich, Catherine of Siena and Meister Eckhart.

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