Epochs of Church History
EDITED BY
PROFESSOR MANDELL CREIGHTON.
THE ENGLISH CHURCH IN
THE MIDDLE AGES.
EPOCHS OF CHURCH HISTORY.
Edited by Professor Mandell Creighton.
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THE ENGLISH CHURCH IN OTHER LANDS. By Rev. H. W. Tucker.
THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN ENGLAND. By Rev. George G. Perry.
THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. By the Rev. J. H. Overton.
THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. By the Hon. G. C. Brodrick.
THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. By J. Bass Mullinger, M.A.
THE CHURCH OF THE EARLY FATHERS. By A. Plummer, D.D.
THE CHURCH AND THE ROMAN EMPIRE. By the Rev. A. Carr.
THE CHURCH AND THE PURITANS, 1570-1660. By H. Offley Wakeman, M.A.
THE CHURCH AND THE EASTERN EMPIRE. By the Rev. H. F. Tozer.
HILDEBRAND AND HIS TIMES. By the Rev. W. R. W. Stephens.
THE ENGLISH CHURCH IN THE MIDDLE AGES. By Rev. W. Hunt, M.A.
THE ARIAN CONTROVERSY. By H. M. Gwatkin, M.A.
THE COUNTER-REFORMATION. By A. W. Ward.
THE ENGLISH CHURCH
IN THE
MIDDLE AGES.
BY
WILLIAM HUNT.
LONDON:
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1888.
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This book is intended to illustrate the relations of the English Churchwith the papacy and with the English State down to the revolt of Wyclifagainst the abuses which had gathered round the ecclesiastical system ofthe Middle Ages, and the Great Schism in the papacy which materiallyaffected the ideas of the whole of Western Christendom. It was thoughtexpedient to deal with these subjects in a narrative form, and some gapshave therefore had to be filled up, and some links supplied. This has beendone as far as possible by notices of matters which bear on the moralcondition of the Church, and serve to show how far it was qualified atvarious periods to be the example and instructor of the nation. Noattempt, however, has been made to write a complete history on a smallscale, and I have designedly passed by many points, in themselves ofinterest and importance, in order to give as much space as might be to myproper subjects.[Pg vi] Besides, this volume has been written as one of a seriesin which the missions to the Teutonic peoples, the various aspects ofMonasticism, the question of Investitures, and the place which theUniversity of Oxford fills in our Church’s history have been, or will be,treated separately. Accordingly I have not touched on any of these thingsfurther than seemed absolutely necessary.
I wish that, limited as my task has been, I could believe that it has beenadequately performed. No one can understand th