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Top: Society: Religion_and_Spirituality: Christianity: Denominations: Catholicism: History: By_Time_Period: Middle_Ages
For Catholic history sites and topics between the fall of the Western Roman Empire (5th century AD) to the fall of the Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) Empire (15th century AD).
A movement of women who lived alone, and without taking vows devoted themselves to prayer and good works.
Heresies were deviations from Catholic doctrine that saw themselves as affirming Catholic doctrine. The similarity amongst them ends there.Some (such as the Cathars) were thoroughgoing denials of Trinitarian theology, while others (such as the Spiritual Franciscans) simply objected to some but not all the behaviour of the church.
Many heresies were seen by later Protestants as foreshadowing Protestant criticisms of Catholic doctrine.
A struggle between the popes and the Holy Roman Emperors Henry IV and Henry V, during the period 1075-1122 on whether the church or the secular power had the power to appoint office holders within the church.
The relationship between Christianity and Judaism was complex during the Middle Ages. Although the Jewish communities were regarded as being responsible for the death and rejection of Christ it was also recognised that Jesus and his disciples were originally Jewish. Although Jewish communities suffered severe restrictions under Christian rule they were the only religion that the Papacy constantly called on to be allowed in Christian lands - a right often ignored by Christian princes and populations.
Sites dealing with Ecclesiastical taxation in the Middle Ages.
The Western Schism was a forty year long dispute which split Europe as to who the true Pope was which was finished by the council of Constance in 1418.
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