Storia della Chiesa 2RA0808

To offer a thorough reading of the history of the Church, from the end of the 7th century until the 15th century

1. Towards a Christian Europe. 2. The “Dark Ages” or a crisis for the birth of a new age? 3. The departing of the first and second Crusades. 4. The Church in Reform. 5. A “Christian” Europe? 6. The Byzantine Church in the Epoch of the Crusades. 7. The Papacy to the test. 8. Christianity in labour. 9. The fall of Byzantium.

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