Renowned professor Thomas F. Madden turns his scholarly eye on the intrigue and politics swirling about the Medieval Church. Professor Madden explores the compelling events that shaped the culture and forever altered history, from the Monophysite Controversy to reform movements to the Inquisition, Black Death, and Great Schism. This is a history populated with larger-than-life characters and notorious personages such as Charlemagne, Pope Innocent III, and the Knights Templar. Richly detailed and infused with dramatic intensity, Professor Madden's captivating lectures provide a better understanding not only of the Medieval Church, but of the modern world that followed.Lecture 1 Birth of the Medieval Church
Lecture 2 The Church in an Age of Chaos
Lecture 3 In the Year 1000: A Tour Across a Medieval Ecclesiastical Landscape
Lecture 4 The Faith of the Medieval Church
Lecture 5 The Eleventh-Century Reform Movement
Lecture 6 The Flowering of the Twelfth Century
Lecture 7 The Age of Pope Innocent III
Lecture 8 Cathedral and University
Lecture 9 Heresy and Inquisition
Lecture 10 Coming of the Friars
Lecture 11 The Apogee of Papal Monarchy in the Thirteenth Century
Lecture 12 In the Time of the Black Death
Lecture 13 The Avignon Papacy and the Return to Rome
Lecture 14 The Great Schism and the Question of Reform