Download or read book The Church in the Dark Ages written by Henri Daniel-Rops and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2001 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henri Daniel-Rops has written a history embracing not merely the development of the ecclesiastical administration, the rise and fall of churches, empires and dynasties, but giving a warmly sympathetic insight into the impact of faith upon the humble mass of its adherents, new and old, its influence upon learning, the arts and the material appurtenances it had preserved for the world, and its profound effect even upon its enemies.