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West in the Middle Ages 481 A.D. - 1485 A.D.

The Power of the Church 529 – 1409

This entry is part 8 of 12 in the series West in the Middle Ages 481 A.D. – 1485 A.D.

IN THE YEAR 1134, in the town of Chartres in France, the church burned down. The church was a cathedral — that is, it was the church of a bishop. The bishop at that time was Theodoric and he immediately…

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August 22, 2017

East in the Middle Ages 214 B.C. - 1644 A.D.

Japan, the “Source of the Sun” 3000 B.C.-A.D. 400

This entry is part 22 of 27 in the series East in the Middle Ages 214 B.C. – 1644 A.D.

THE Japanese islands — four large ones and many smaller ones — rise out of the Pacific Ocean to the east of China and Korea. They form a bow that bends from southwest to north for eleven hundred miles. The…

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August 9, 2017

Early Christianity and Byzantium 6 B. C. - 1453 A. D.

Great Church Fathers 340 – 430 A. D.

This entry is part 7 of 13 in the series Early Christianity and Byzantium 6 B.C. – 1453 A.D.

IT WAS about the middle of Lent in Antioch, reported Jerome, when “a deep-seated fever fell upon my weakened body, and . . . it so wasted my unhappy frame that scarcely anything was left of me but skin and…

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August 1, 2017