Church and Culture in the Middle Ages (350-814)

What was the true relationship between the Catholic Church and the culture of the early Middle Ages? In this landmark study, German Catholic historian Gustav Schnürer (1860–1941) answers that question with learning and balance.

Rejecting both the Enlightenment caricature of a barbarous "Dark Age" and the temptation to idealize the period, Schnürer traces the four and a half centuries from 350 to the death of Charlemagne in 814, showing how the Church preserved learning, converted the peoples of Europe, and laid the foundations of Christian civilization.