These ten essays by John Van Engen situate religion in the history of medieval Western Europe: as an unavoidable presence in everyday life, as a conceptual fram

Western European civilization in the medieval centuries was a time of significant development as the ascendency of the Roman Catholic Church spread Christianity

During the middle ages, belief in God was the single more important principle for every person, and the all-powerful church was the most important institution.

Western European civilization evolved during the medieval centuries when the whole area was converted to Christianity in its Latin Catholic form. This account i