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.
Medieval Europe 04: Monasticism
Medieval Europe 03: The Early Medieval Church (30-604)
Medieval Europe 02: The Gothic War (535-554)
Medieval Europe 01: The Barbarian Kingdoms (476-533)
Rome 29: The End of the Western Roman Empire?
Rome 28: The Goths
Rome 27: The "Germanic" Tribes
Rome 26: The Celts
Rome 23: The Crisis of the Third Century
Rome 21: The Nerva-Antonines
Rome 20: The Flavians
Rome 19: The Year of the Four Emperors
Rome 18: The Julio-Claudians
Rome 17: The Reforms of Augustus
Rome 16: The Age of Augustus
Rome 11: Marius and Sulla
Rome 10: Second Century Military Changes
Rome 09: Scipio Aemilianus and the Gracchi
Rome 08: The Social and Political Changes
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