A Key to the Knowledge of Church History (Ancient). John Henry Blunt
The Early History of Particular Churches.
Section 1. The Church of England.
Section 2. The Church of Ireland.
Section 3. The Church of Scotland.
Section 4. Continental Churches.
Section 5. The Church in Africa.
Section 6. The Eastern Church.
Section 2. The Religion of Mahomet.
Section 3. The Spread of Mahometanism.
The Division between East and West
Section I. Jealousy between Rome and Constantinople.
Section 2. The Iconoclast (or Image-breaking) Controversy.
Section 3. The Controversy respecting the Double Procession of the Holy Ghost.
Section 1. The Supremacy of the Popes.
Section 2. Some account of the Popes of the Middle Ages.
Section 3. The Monastic Orders.
Section 5. State of Religions Relief and Practice during the Middle Ages.
The Mediaeval History of Continental Churches
Section 1. The Church of Italy.
Section 2. The Church of France.
Section 3. The Church of Spain and Portugal.
Section 4. The Church of Germany.
Section 5. The Church of Hungary.
Section 6. The Church of Poland.
Section 7. The Scandinavian Churches.
Section 8. The Churches now comprehended in European Turkey and Greece.
Section 9. The Church of Russia.
The Mediaeval Church in Great Britain and Ireland
Section 1. The Church of England.
Section 2. The Church of Ireland.
Section 3. The Church of Scotland.
PREFACE
This Volume offers to the reader a short and condensed account of the origin, growth, and condition of the Church in all parts of the world, from the time of our Lord down to the end of the fifteenth century, the narrative being compressed into as small a compass as is consistent with a readable form.
In such a work the reader will not, of course, expect to find any full and detailed account of so vast a subject as Pre-Reformation Church History. Its object is rather to sketch out the historical truth about each Church, and to indicate the general principles on which further inquiry may be conducted by those who have the opportunity of making it.
It is hoped that those whose circumstances do not admit of an extended study of the subject will find in the following pages a clear, though condensed, view of the periods and Churches treated of; and that those whose reading is of a less limited range will be put in possession of certain definite lines of thought, by which they may be guided in reading