The history of Christianity follows the Christian religion as it developed from its earliest beliefs and practices in the
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Little is fully known of Christianity in its first 150 years; sources are few. This and other complications have limited scholars to probable rather than provable conclusions, based largely on the biblical book of Acts, whose hist… See more

Throughout the Roman Empire of the fourth to sixth centuries, people shifted between a variety of religious groups in a kind of "religious marketplace". Law, literature, rituals and institutions established boundaries… See more

Christianity in the 600s was well established around the Mediterranean and beyond in multiple Christian communities that differed by locale yet remained connected. However, religion in these Christian c… See more

The High Middle Ages is no longer seen as a unified pious "golden age" of Christendom. Instead, scholars see Latin Christendom as composed of a variety of Christian ideals and societies that overlappe… See more

By the fourteenth-century, papal power had stopped increasing while kings had substantively gained and consolidated power for themselves. In Europe of the Late Middle Ages, people experienced plague, famine… See more

Powerful and pervasive ecclesiastical reform developed from medieval critiques of the church, but the institutional unity of the church was shattered. Church critics of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries had challenged … See more