HISTORY of the CHRISTIAN CHURCH*
CONTENTS.
FROM BONIFACE VIII. TO MARTIN LUTHER. A.D. 1294–1517.
The Sixth Period of Church Histyry.
§ 1. Introductory Survey.
CHAPTER I.
THE DECLINE OF THE PAPACY AND THE AVIGNON
EXILE. A.D. 1294–1377.
§ 2. Sources and Literature.
§ 3. Pope Boniface VIII. 1294–1303.
§ 4. Boniface VIII. and Philip the Fair of France.
§ 5. Literary Attacks against the Papacy.
§ 6. The Transfer of the Papacy to Avignon.
§ 7. The Pontificate of John XXII 1316–1334.
§ 8. The Papal Office Assailed.
§ 9. The Financial Policy of the Avignon Popes.
§ 10. The Later Avignon Popes.
§ 11. The Re-establishment of the Papacy in Rome. 1377.
CHAPTER II.
THE PAPAL SCHISM AND THE REFORMATORY
COUNCILS. 1378–1449.
§ 12. Sources and Literature.
§ 13. The Schism Begun. 1378.
§ 14. Further Progress of the Schism. 1378–1409.
§ 15. The Council of Pisa.
§ 16. The Council of Constance. 1414–1418.
§ 17. The council of Basel. 1431–1449.
§ 18. The Council of Ferrara-Florence. 1438–1445.
CHAPTER III.
LEADERS OF CATHOLIC THOUGHT.
§ 19. Literature.
§ 20. Ockam and the Decay of Scholasticism.
§ 21. Catherine of Siena, the Saint.
§ 22. Peter d’Ailly, Ecclesiastical Statesman.
§ 23. John Gerson, Theologian and Church Leader.
§ 24. Nicolas of Clamanges, the Moralist.
§ 25. Nicolas of Cusa, Scholar and Churchman.
§ 26. Popular Preachers.
CHAPTER IV.
THE GERMAN MYSTICS.
§ 27. Sources and Literature.
§ 28. The New Mysticism.
§ 29. Meister Eckart.
§ 30. John Tauler of Strassburg.
§ 31. Henry Suso.
§ 32. The Friends of God.
§ 33. John of Ruysbroeck.
§ 34. Gerrit de Groote and the Brothers of the Common Life.
§ 35. The Imitation of Christ. Thomas à Kempis.
§ 36. The German Theology.
§ 37. English Mystics.
CHAPTER V.
REFORMERS BEFORE THE REFORMATION.
§ 38. Sources and Literature.
§ 39. The Church in England in the Fourteenth Century.
§ 40. John Wyclif.
§ 41. Wyclif’s Teachings.
§ 42. Wyclif and the Scriptures.
§ 43. The Lollards.
§ 44. John Huss of Bohemia.
§ 45. Huss at Constance.
§ 46. Jerome of Prag.
§ 47. The Hussites.
CHAPTER VI.
THE LAST POPES OF THE MIDDLE AGES. 1447–1521
§ 48. Literature and General Survey.
§ 49. Nicolas V. 1447–1455.
§ 50. Aeneas Sylvius de’ Piccolomini, Pius II.
§ 51. Paul II. 1464–1471.
§ 52. Sixtus IV. 1471–1484.
§ 53. Innocent VIII. 1484–1492.
§ 54. Pope Alexander VI—Borgia. 1492–1503.
§ 55. Julius II., the Warrior-Pope. 1503–1513.
§ 56. Leo X. 1513–1521.
CHAPTER VII.
HERESY AND WITCHCRAFT.
§ 57. Literature.
§ 58. Heretical and Unchurchly Movements.
§ 59. Witchcraft and its Punishment.
§ 60. The Spanish Inquisition.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE RENAISSANCE.
§ 61. Literature of the Renaissance.
§ 62. The Intellectual Awakening.
§ 63. Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio.
§ 64. Progress and Patrons of Classical Studies in the 15th Century.
§ 65. Greek Teachers and Italian Humanists.
§ 66. The Artists.
§ 67. The Revival of Paganism.
§ 68. Humanism in Germany.
§ 69. Reuchlin and Erasmus.
§ 70. Humanism in France.
§ 71. Humanism in England.
CHAPTER IX.
THE PULPIT AND POPULAR PIETY.
§ 72. Literature.
§ 73. The Clergy.
§ 74. Preaching.
§ 75. Doctrinal Reformers.
§ 76. Girolamo Savonarola.
§ 77. The Study and Circulation of the Bible.
§ 78. Popular Piety.
§ 79. Works of Charity.
§ 80. The Sale of Indulgences.
CHAPTER X.
THE CLOSE OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
§ 81. The Close of the Middle Ages.
* Schaff, Philip, History of the Christian Church, (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.) 1997. This material has been carefully compared, corrected¸ and emended (according to the 1910 edition of Charles Scribner's Sons) by The Electronic Bible Society, Dallas, TX, 1998.