In my last post, I made it a point to show that one of the distinguishing features in the universities during the High Catholic Age was their fascination with a...
As we continue our overview of what has been traditionally called “The Middle Ages,” but what I have chosen to call “The High Catholic Age,” we now come to the ...
There has often been a misguided assumption by many who have this strange impression that before the Crusades, Christianity had been a largely pacifist and “ant...
Much has been written about the Crusades, so I will not attempt to write yet another history about them. The Crusades, though, were incredibly significant on a ...
1054 AD marked a watershed moment for the respective histories of both the Eastern Byzantine Empire and what was soon to become Western Christendom. For the pre...
In this final post regarding Europe during the Byzantine Age (313-1054 AD), I want to touch upon two things: the impact of Charlemagne, and the threat of Islam....
When it comes to Church history, we must always remember that oftentimes the true impact of Christianity is to be found far away from the halls of power. While ...
The reason why I have not posted anything in the past week or so will soon become obvious. As I’ve been looking at the next section of my “Ways of the Worldview...
One of the things I have come to realize as I have read up on Christian history is that the impact Christianity had on all areas of life cannot be over-stated. ...
On October 28th, 312 AD, the tetrarch Constantine defeated his fellow tetrarch Maxentius, at the battle of the Milvian Bridge. The night before the battle Const...