The Story of Christianity: Volume 1: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation

by Justo L. González

But in all of these elements of unity there were tensions and weak points that would eventually bring down the imposing edifice of medieval Christianity. Already in 1261, the Latin Empire of Constantinople had come to an end, and so had the fictitious union between East and West that the Fourth Crusade had accomplished. During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, new economic and political conditions would challenge the papacy and cause it to lose much of its authority. Nationalism, war, plague, corruption, and invasion would shatter the dreams of the thirteenth century, and open the way for the new order of the Modern Age.

Focal issue eight - On Campus time 10/16-10/18/2019