Pope Joan - http://www.britannica.com/heritage/article?content_id=1381 A feature in Encyclopedia Britannica Online showing the differing treatment of the legend of a female Pope to show a more balanced and less inflamatory British attitude towards Catholics.
Affirmation of the Right of a Priest to Make a Will - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1165Prstwill.html By the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa in 1165, an implication that the state had power over the church. From the Medieval Sourcebook.
Middle Ages - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10285c.htm Article from the Catholic Encyclopedia with a large list of links to related articles.
Monastic Matrix - http://monasticmatrix.org/ A project documenting the participation of Christian women in the religion and society of medieval Europe, aiming to collect and make available all existing data about all professional Christian women in Europe between 500 and 1500 AD.
The Papacy - http://the-orb.net/textbooks/westciv/papacy.html Historical survey in the Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies.
Was the Medieval Church Corrupt? - http://the-orb.net/non_spec/missteps/ch11.html Essay from the Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies.
The Rise of the Western Church - http://www.vlib.us/medieval/lectures/western_church.html An account of the rise of the church in the Western half of the Empire, the see of Rome.
The Holy Grail - http://www.usao.edu/~facshaferi/GRAIL.HTML An essay on the role of the search for the Holy Grail on medieval Christianity. From the Ecole Initiative.
Medieval Church.org.uk - http://www.medievalchurch.org.uk/ Thematic bibliography for Studying the Church of the Middle Ages, from a Protestant perspective.
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