History of the Christian Church, Volume IV: Mediaeval Christianity. A.D. 590-1073

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Contents

1. Sources and Literature
2. The Middle Age. Limits and General Character
3. The Nations of Mediaeval Christianity. The Kelt, the Teuton, and the Slav
4. Genius of Mediaeval Christianity
5. Periods of the Middle Age
6. Character of Mediaeval Missions
7. Literature
8. The Britons
9. The Anglo-Saxons
10. The Mission of Gregory and Augustin. Conversion of Kent, a.d. 595-604
11. Antagonism of the Saxon and British Clergy
12. Conversion of the Other Kingdoms of the Heptarchy
13. Conformity to Row Established. Wilfrid, Theodore, Bede
14. The Conversion of Ireland. St. Patrick and St. Bridget
15. The Irish Church after St. Patrick
16. Subjection of Ireland to English and Roman Rule
17. The Conversion of Scotland. St. Ninian and St. Kentigern
18. St. Columba and the Monastery of Iona
19. The Culdees
20. Extinction of the Keltic Church, and Triumph of Rome under King David I
21. Arian Christianity among the Goths and other German Tribes
22. Conversion of Clovis and the Franks
23. Columbanus and the Irish Missionaries on the Continent
24. German Missionaries before Boniface
25. Boniface, the Apostle of Germany
26. The Pupils of Boniface. Willibald, Gregory of Utrecht, Sturm of Fulda
27. The Conversion of the Saxons. Charlemagne and Alcuin. The Heliand, and the Gospel-Harmony
28. Scandinavian Heathenism
29. The Christianization of Denmark. St. Ansgar
30. The Christianization of Sweden
31. The Christianization of Norway and Iceland
32. General Survey
33. Christian Missions among the Wends
34. Cyrillus and Methodius, the Apostles of the Slavs. Christianization of Moravia, Bohemia and Poland
35. The Conversion of the Bulgarians
36. The Conversion of the Magyars
37. The Christianization of Russia
38. Literature
39. Statistics and Chronological Table
40. Position of Mohammedanism in Church History
41. The Home, and the Antecedents of Islâm
42. Life and Character of Mohammed
43. The Conquests of Islâm
44. The Koran, and the Bible
45. The Mohammedan Religion
46. Mohammedan Worship
47. Christian Polemics against Mohammedanism. Note on Mormonism
48. General Literature on the Papacy
49. Chronological Table of the Popes, Anti-Popes, and Roman Emperors from Gregory I. to Leo XIII
50. Gregory the Great. a.d. 590-604
51. Gregory and the Universal Episcopate
52. The Writings of Gregory
53. The Papacy from Gregory I to Gregory II a.d. 604-715
54. From Gregory II to Zacharias. a.d. 715-741
55. Alliance of the Papacy with the New Monarchy of the Franks. Pepin and the Patrimony of St. Peter. A.d. 741-755
56. Charles the Great. a.d. 768-814
57. Founding of the Holy Roman Empire, a.d. 800. Charlemagne and Leo II
58. Survey of the History of the Holy Roman Empire
59. The Papacy and the Empire from the Death of Charlemagne to Nicolas I a.d. 814-858). Note on the Myth of the Papess Joan
60. The Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals
61. Nicolas I., April, 858-Nov. 13, 867
62. Hadrian II. and John VIII a.d. 867 to 882
63. The Degradation of the Papacy in the Tenth Century
64. The Interference of Otho the Great
65. The Second Degradation of the Papacy from Otho I to Henry III. a.d. 97-1046
66. Henry III and the Synod of Sutri. Deposition of three rival Popes. a.d. 1046
67. Sources and Literature
68. The Consensus and Dissensus between the Greek and Latin Churches
69. The Causes of Separation
70. The Patriarch and the Pope. Photius and Nicolas
71. Progress and Completion of the Schism. Cerularius
72. Fruitless Attempts at Reunion
73. Literature
74. General Character of Mediaeval Morals
75. Clerical Morals
76. Domestic Life
77. Slavery
78. Feuds and Private Wars. The Truce of God
79. The Ordeal
80. The Torture
81. Christian Charity
82. Use of Convents in the Middle Ages
83. St. Benedict. St. Nilus. St. Romuald
84. The Convent of Cluny
85. The Penitential Books
86. Ecclesiastical Punishments. Excommunication, Anathema, Interdict
87. Penance and Indulgence
88. Legislation
89. The Roman Law
90. The Capitularies of Charlemagne
91. English Legislation
92. The Mass
93. The Sermon
94. Church Poetry. Greek Hymns and Hymnists
95. Latin Hymnody. Literature
96. Latin Hymns and Hymnists
97. The Seven Sacraments
98. The Organ and the Bell
99. The Worship of Saints
100. The Worship of Images. Literature. Different Theories
101. The Iconoclastic War, and the Synod of 754
102. The Restoration of Image-Worship by the Seventh Oecumenical Council, 787
103. Iconoclastic Reaction, and Final Triumph of Image-Worship, a.d. 842
104. The Caroline Books and the Frankish Church on Image-Worship
105. Evangelical Reformers. Agobardus of Lyons, and Claudius of Turin
106. General Survey
107. The Controversy on the Procession of the Holy Spirit
108. The Arguments for and against the Filioque
109. The Monotheletic Controversy
110. The Doctrine of Two Wills in Christ
111. History of Monotheletism and Dyotheletism
112. The Sixth Oecumenical Council. a.d. 680
113. The Heresy of Honorius
114. Concilium Quinisextum. a.d. 692
115. Reaction of Monotheletism. The Maronites
116. The Adoptionist Controversy. Literature
117. History of Adoptionism
118. Doctrine of Adoptionism
119. The Predestinarian Controversy
120. Gottschalk and Babanus Maurus
121. Gottschalk and Hincmar
122. The Contending Theories on Predestination, and the Victory of Semi-Augustinianism
123. The Doctrine of Scotus Erigena
124. The Eucharistic Controversies. Literature
125. The Two Theories of the Lord's Supper
126. The Theory of Paschasius Radbertus
127. The Theory of Ratramnus
128. The Berengar Controversy
129. Berengar's Theory of the Lord's Supper
130. Lanfranc and the Triumph of Transubstantiation
131. The Paulicians
132. The Euchites and other Sects in the East
133. The New Manichaeans in the West
134. Literature
135. Literary Character of the Early Middle Ages
136. Learning in the Eastern Church
137. Christian Platonism and the Pseudo-Dionysian Writings
138. Prevailing Ignorance in the Western Church
139. Educational Efforts of the Church
140. Patronage of Letters by Charles the Great, and Charles the Bald
141. Alfred the Great, and Education in England
142. Chronological List of the Principal Ecclesiastical Writers from the Sixth to the Twelfth Century
143. St. Maximus Confessor
144. John of Damascus
145. Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople
146. Simeon Metaphrastes
147. Oecumenius
148. Theophylact
149. Michael Psellus
150. Euthymius Zigabenus
151. Eustathius of Thessalonica
152. Nicetas Acominatos
153. Cassiodorus
154. St. Gregory of Tours
155. St. Isidore of Seville
156. The Venerable Bede (Baeda)
157. Paul the Deacon
158. St. Paulinus of Aquileia
159. Alcuin
160. St. Liudger
161. Theodulph of Orleans
162. St. Eigil
163. Amalarius
164. Einhard
165. Smaragdus
166. Jonas of Orleans
167. Rabanus Maurus
168. Haymo
169. Walahfrid Strabo
170. Florus Magister, of Lyons
171. Servatus Lupus
172. Druthmar
173. St. Paschasius Radbertus
174. Patramnus
175. Hincmar of Rheims
176. Johannes Scotus Erigena
177. Anastasius
178. Ratherius of Verona
179. Gerbert (Sylvester II.)
180. Fulbert of Chartres
181. Rodulfus Glaber. Adam of Bremen
182. St. Peter Damiani