Medieval Church History

The medieval world is the foundational structure of our society. Church history of the medieval period is often neglected in reformed and evangelical circles, which largely emphasize reformation-era history.

Here are thirty-seven talks that I gave on medieval church history to help reformed and evangelical Christians understand our ecclesiastical world and why we needed a Protestant Reformation in the first place.

A Medieval World
Cyril and Methodius
Gottschalk of Orbais
Viking Invaders & Cluniac Revival
Quem Queritis: Passion Plays & Literacy
Anselm of Canterbury
The Great East-West Schism
Abelard, Heloise & the Rise of Scholasticm
Defense of the First Crusade
Oxford & the University System
Bernard of Clairvaux
The Jews of Medieval Christendom
The Second Crusade
Peter Lombard & the Sentences
Notre Dame & the Cathedral Makers
Peter Waldo & the Waldensians
Third & Fourth Crusade
Francis of Assisi
Fourth Lateran Council
Dominic de Guzman & the Dominicans
Thomas Aquinas
Prester John & Christian Ethiopia
The Late Scholastics
Dante & the Divine Comedy
Avignon Captivity & Western Schism
The Great Famine
John Wycliffe
John of Montecorvino & Christianity in China
Black Death
Jan Hus & the Hussites
Julian of Norwich & Female Mysticism
Thomas a'Kempis
Fall of the Byzantine Empire
The Gutenberg Bible
The Spanish Inquisition
New World 15th c. Missions
Erasmus & the Greek New Testament