SOURCES – Updated 11 June 2015

General

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Jenkins, Philip. The Lost History of Christianity. New York: Harper One. 2008.

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L’Huillier, Peter. The Church of the Ancient Councils: The Disciplinary Work of the First Four Ecumenical Councils. Crestwood: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press. 1996.

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Beginnings to 500s

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500s – 1000s

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1000s – 1500s

Blumenthal, Uta-Renate. The Investiture Controversy: Church and Monarchy from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1995.

Gilson, Etienne. The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press. 1991.

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Papadakis, Aristeides. The Christian East and the Rise of the Papacy: The Church 1071-1453 A.D. Crestwood: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press. 1994.

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