The Middle Ages
Middle Ages Overview:
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Middle Ages

 
DATES: PEOPLE: STORY:
500 Benedict of Nursia

Gregory the Great
Celtic Missions
Nestorianism in China
600

622: Muslim expansion begins

 

Muhammad Rise of Islam
Muslim Conquests
700 Boniface
Apostles' Creed
800

800: Coronation of Charlemagne

Charlemagne

Cyril and Methodius
Byzantine Mission to Slavs
Frankish Church

900

 

  Conversion of Bohemia, Poland, and Hungary
Conversion of Russia

1000

1054: Great Schism between East and West made formal

Anselm of Canterbury Conversion of Scandinavia
Great Schism between East and West
Crusades begin
1100

1198: Papacy of Innocent III begins

Bernard of Clairvaux
Peter Abelard
Peter Lombard
Universities
Scholasticism
1200

1209: Franciscans founded

1265-1273: Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas

Francis of Assisi
Thomas Aquinas
Mendicant Orders
Evangelism in China
1300

1309: Great Schism of Western Church begins

John Wycliffe
Great Schism in Western Church
Conciliarism
1400 John Huss
Fall of Byzantine Empire
Evangelism in Kongo
 
 
Indulgences
Purgatory
Pilgrimage
Cult of Saints


Sacraments
Transubstantiation

Merit

Augustinian Theology
Thomists
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Constantinople

Paris
Rome

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