FINALITÀ
General Objective:
To offer a thorough reading of the history of the Church,
from the end of the 7th century until the 15th century.
ARGOMENTI
Course Outlines:
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.
TESTI
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