CHAPTER XIII. 



THE PERIOD FROM THE SIXTH COUNCIL 

 TO THE DIVISION OF THE CHURCH. 



EUROPE SLUMBERING SARACENS PAPAL POWER — - 



MONASTIC ORDERS — FEUDAL SYSTEM DIVISION. 



A. D. 711. SARACENS IN SPAIN. 



768-814. REIGN OF CHARLEMAGNE. 



87I-9OI. ALFRED THE GREAT OF ENGLAND. 



IO54. DIVISION OF THE CHURCH. 



The next period of history at which we are to 

 look, extends from a. d. 680 to a. d. 1054, at 

 which latter date the Church was rent into two por- 

 tions. The pictures presented are not very cheer- 

 ing in their nature, for ignorance, worldliness and 

 superstition prevailed. It was a winter period of 

 cold and dreariness. It seems doubly dreary to 

 us, living at this distance from it, because of the 

 corruptions of the true faith which were nearly 

 everywhere spread, and which overshadowed what- 

 ever of primitive truth and piety there was. Doubt- 

 less there were, in every place where the Redeemer 



