The Christian East & the Rise of the Papacy: The Church AD 1071-1453

Aristeides Papadakis in collaboration with John Meyendorff

This fourth volume of THE CHURCH IN HISTORY series examines developments in the Christian churches of the East and the West in the High Middle Ages.  The author studies major Western movements such as the reform papacy, the crusades, and scholasticism, and sicusses ther impact of these movements on the Eastern Church. Concurrently, he explores the theological and spiritual trends that spread from Byzantium to the northern regions of the Balkans and Rus', which helped to maintain the identity of the Byzantine Commonwealth even as the empire itself crumbled - monasticism, sacramental life, and litrugy.  Moreover, the author describes the stories of the native churches of Egypt, Ethiopia, Syria, Armenia, and Georgia.

Recommended for Antiochian House of Studies, Unit 1
424 pages
Paperback
Published 1994
size: 9 x 6 x 1"
ISBN: 978-0-88141-057-0