Table of Contents

I. The Apostolic Age
II. Early Christian Apologists
III. The Victory of Constantine
IV. The Church Fathers
V. Early Monasteries
VI. Byzantium
VII. Mohammed and Islam
VIII. The Conversion of Western Europe
IX. Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire
X. The Eastern Schism
XI. The Dark Days of the Papacy
XII. Gregory VII and His Age
XIII. The Crusades
XIV. The Age of Faith
XV. Heresy and Inquisition
XVI. The Great Mendicant Orders
XVII. Scholasticism
XVIII. Empire versus Papacy
XIX. The Popes at Avignon
XX. The Great Western Schism
XXI. The Renaissance
XXII. The Protestant Revolt
XXIII. The Catholic Reformation
XXIV. The New World
XXV. Mission FIelds of Africa and Asia
XXVI. The Era of the French Revolution
XXVII. Revival in the British Isles
XXVIII. The Church in the Nineteenth Century
XXIX. The Church in Latin America
XXX. The Catholic Church in the Twentieth Century
Notes

About the Author

Marian Mckenna is associate professor of American History at Manhattanville College. She was a dedicated scholar who wrote many books and scholarly publications including Borah, Concise History of Catholicism, and Myra Hess, A Portrait . Marian has received numerous awards and fellowships including the Erb Fellowship in American History, Columbia University; the Penrose Award, American Philosophical Society; and the Danforth Fellowship, Society for Religion in Higher Education.