Before reading this chapter, STOP. Take a moment and think about what your perceptions are of the medieval Church. What came to mind? The Pope, corruption, scandal, power, controllers of Europe, manipulators of kings? These popular images of the medieval Church and the Papacy are not unfounded. But these images and notions are, for the most part, that of a Church developed. In the Early Middle Ages the Papacy was only a few hundred years old. Christianity was only made legal in the the early fourth century by Emperor Constantine and not made the official religion of the Roman Empire until 380 by Emperor Theodosius. What did the Church look like before this? How much power did it wield after? And how did it function after the "fall" of the Roman Empire in the West in the late fifth century? These questions shall frame this lecture.
Ep. 09: Medieval Birds in Thought
Ep. 08: Hobgoblin in the Ninth Century (Medieval Beasts)
Ep. 07: Dirty Riddles and Farts
Ep. 06: Murder in a Church
Ep. 05: The Case of a Criminal in a Church
Ep. 04: The Song of Roland (Medieval Tale)
Ep. 03: That Time a Viking Kissed a Foot
Ep. 02 - Medieval Beasts (Cynocephaly)
Ep. 01: Medieval Murder (The Murder of a Pope)
Charlemagne 06: Boyhood (742-755)
Charlemagne 05: Pippin the Short (751-768)
Charlemagne 04: Charles the Hammer
Charlemagne 03: The Carolingian Family
Charlemagne 02: The Institutions of the Frankish Kingdom
Charlemagne 01: The Frankish World
Medieval Europe 30: The End of the Middle Ages
Medieval Europe 29: The Hundred Years War, Part II (1415-1453)
Medieval Europe 28: The Western Schism (1378-1417)
Medieval Europe 27: The Black Death (1347-1351)
Medieval Europe 26: The Hundred Years War, Part I (1327-1386)
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