中世纪天主教的信仰与危机:1000-1500年

在1000-1500年间,天主教欧洲见证了信仰事务上的多次危机,它们的性质、规模、影响以及重要性各不相同。在此期间,"信仰"伴随着"危机";但信仰没有受到严重的威胁。大多数危机是地方性或区域性的,持续时间也不长,从未达到真正的临界点。它们是可以用这种或那种方法来化解的,并总是能够得到化解,天主教对中世纪整个西欧的掌控因而从未受到严重的威胁,直到宗教改革改变一切。

Faith and Crisis in Medieval Catholicism,c.1000 to c.1500

Between 1000 and 1500 catholic Europe witnessed many crises in matters of faith,which varied in their nature,scale,and impact,and in their significance.’Faith’ and ’crisis’ can be linked in this period;but the faith was not seriously under threat.Most of the crises were local or regional,and usually did not last long.These crises never reached a truly critical point and never changed Catholicism’s hold on medieval Western Europe as a whole.They were always manageable,and managed,one way or another,until the Reformation changed everything.