The Twentieth Century Encyclopedia of Catholicism The Dawn of the Middle Ages
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Book
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Category
Catholic Church - History
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Publication Year
1963
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Volume
75
Pages
126
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Beginning with the conversion of the Roman Emperor Constantine in AD 313, and covering the exciting story of barbarian invasions and pagan Roman decadence, The Dawn of the Middle Ages treats the triumph of Christianity in Europe which followed the collapse and destruction of the Roman Empire.
During the dramatic fight against powerful heretics who took advantage of the chaotic times to promulgate their divergent ideas as the truth, this period was important in Church history as the time when the doctrines and tenets of Christianity were being created in the councils of theologians. A portion of the book explains the various heresies of the times.
The last portion of this volume is concerned with the Carolingian Renaissance and the advent of the Emperor Charlemagne who was the inspiration of that age.
The volume ends with the fall of the Carolingian Empire and the general moral and political decadence that men called the dark ages and which we now know to have been the prelude to the era of medieval Christendom.
Jean Remy Palanque wsa born in Marseilles in 1898. From 1921 to 1933 he was Professor of history at they Lycee de Montpellier. He then became a lecturer in literature at the same school (1933-1940). Since 1940 he has been a professor of literature and Dean of the Faculty (since 1953) at Aix-en-Provence. He is the author of Saint Ambroise et l'Empire Romain, Constantin, Le Christianisme et le Fin du Monde Antique, and Histoire du Catholicisme en France. He lives in Aix-en-Provence with his wife and five children.
Finbarr Murphy, OSB translated The Dawn of the Middle Ages from the French.
This is Volume 75 under section VIII: The History of the Church.
Taken from the inside flaps.
During the dramatic fight against powerful heretics who took advantage of the chaotic times to promulgate their divergent ideas as the truth, this period was important in Church history as the time when the doctrines and tenets of Christianity were being created in the councils of theologians. A portion of the book explains the various heresies of the times.
The last portion of this volume is concerned with the Carolingian Renaissance and the advent of the Emperor Charlemagne who was the inspiration of that age.
The volume ends with the fall of the Carolingian Empire and the general moral and political decadence that men called the dark ages and which we now know to have been the prelude to the era of medieval Christendom.
Jean Remy Palanque wsa born in Marseilles in 1898. From 1921 to 1933 he was Professor of history at they Lycee de Montpellier. He then became a lecturer in literature at the same school (1933-1940). Since 1940 he has been a professor of literature and Dean of the Faculty (since 1953) at Aix-en-Provence. He is the author of Saint Ambroise et l'Empire Romain, Constantin, Le Christianisme et le Fin du Monde Antique, and Histoire du Catholicisme en France. He lives in Aix-en-Provence with his wife and five children.
Finbarr Murphy, OSB translated The Dawn of the Middle Ages from the French.
This is Volume 75 under section VIII: The History of the Church.
Taken from the inside flaps.
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