Product Description

In this fascinating survey, F. Donald Logan introduces the reader to the Christian church, from the conversion of the Celtic and Germanic peoples through to the discovery of the New World.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #441717 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Review
'Donald Logan has written a magisterial history, beginning with the conversion of the barbarians and concluding with Columbus's discovery of a new world. He tells a fast-moving story as well as analyzing significant moments. This book guides us across a thousand years of history and into many inaccessible areas of thought and experience.' - Professor M.T. Clanchy, University of London

'A History of the Church in the Middle Ages' is a primer that rejects a grand narrative. It is fresh for being so very non-polemical ... a feat of historical synthesis, most confident in its telling of the coming of Christianity..books like Logan's are needed more than ever before. - Miri Rubin, TLS, December 2002

To have written a scholarly and very readable history of the western Church over a millennium, all in the space of 353 pages is a remarkable tour de force...[a] masterly survey. - C.H Lawrence, The Tablet

A significant and learned work on an enormous subject. - Thomas F. Madden, Crisis Magazine

Logan's excellent book provides a much-needed new introduction to what amounts to half of Western Church history...by far the clearest, most current and most readable introduction to its subject available...likely to become a classic in the field. - Gary Macy, Horizons

'For its humane and learned approach to its enormous canvas, as well as for the cogency with which it penetrates at speed to the essentials of a vanished historical epoch, this History of the Church in the Middle Ages deserves a very wide audience indeed.' - English Historical Review

'To have written a scholarly and very readable history of the Western Church over a millennium, all in the space of 353 pages, is a remarkable tour de force, for which Donald Logan is to be warmly congratulated.' - The Tablet

"This is an excellent example of a textbook designed primarily for use in the classroom and for general readers. It is conceptually well organized, stylistically clear, intellectually thoughtful, and pedagogically useful." -- Thomas Head, Speculum

From the Back Cover
A History of the Church in the Middle Ages offers a unique perspective on the legacy and influence of the Christian church in Western culture. Never fixed or static, the church experienced remarkable periods of change between the sixth and sixteenth centuries. Saint Francis of Assisi, the gentle poverello of Umbria, the martyr Thomas Becket, the ill-fated lovers Abelard and Heloise, the visionary Hildegard of Bingen, all testify to the diversity and richness of the medieval church.
In this fascinating survey, Donald Logan introduces the reader to the Christian church, from the conversion of the Celtic and Germanic peoples through to the discovery of the New World. He reveals how the church unified the people of Western Europe as they worshipped with the same ceremonies and used Latin as the language of civilized communication. From the crusades to the creation of magnificent architecture, A History of the Church in the Middle Ages explores the central role of the church in determining a thousand years of history.