CONTENTS
CHAPTER I PAGE THE CHURCH AND ITS PROSPECTS IN THE FIFTH CENTURY . . . . 1
CHAPTER II THE EMPIRE AND THE EASTERN CHURCH, 461-628 . . . . . . . . 6
CHAPTER III THE CHURCH IN ITALY, 461-590 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
CHAPTER IV CHRISTIANITY IN GAUL FROM THE SIXTH TO THE EIGHTH CENTURY 41
CHAPTER V THE PONTIFICATE OF GREGORY THE GREAT . . . . . . . . . . . 60
CHAPTER VI CONTROVERSY AND THE CATHOLICISM OF SPAIN . . . . . . . . . 72
CHAPTER VII THE CHURCH AND THE MONOTHELITE CONTROVERSY . . . . . . . . 83
CHAPTER VIII THE CHURCH IN ASIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
CHAPTER IX THE CHURCH IN AFRICA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
CHAPTER X THE CHURCH IN THE WESTERN ISLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
CHAPTER XI THE CONVERSION OF SLAVS AND NORTHMEN . . . . . . . . . . . 123
CHAPTER XII PROGRESS OF THE CHURCH IN GERMANY . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
CHAPTER XIII THE POPES AND THE REVIVAL OF THE EMPIRE . . . . . . . . . 143
CHAPTER XIV THE ICONOCLASTIC CONTROVERSY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
CHAPTER XV LEARNING AND MONASTICISM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
CHAPTER XVI SACRAMENTS AND LITURGIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
CHAPTER XVII THE END OF THE DARK AGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
APPENDIX I LIST OF EMPERORS AND POPES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
APPENDIX II A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
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