Pt. I. Outline topic chronologies. The early church (from the Apostolic Age to the Council of Nicaea) ; Church and empire, 313-476 ; Early heresies and councils ; Christianity in North Africa (to 698) ;Early monasticism (to 910) ; Christianity in the Eastern empire ; from Justinian to the Great Schism ; Christianity in the East : the Oriental Orthodox churches ; Christianity and the rise of Islam ; The Western church, 402-910 ; The conversion of Europe (to 1198) ; Christianity in the British Isles ; Moorish and Christian Spain, 711-1492 ; The medieval papacy, 1049-1198 ; The medieval papacy, 1198-1305 ; The religious orders ; The Byzantine Church, 1054-1453 ; The Crusades ; Medieval heresy : the Albigensian Crusade ; The Teutonic Knights : the Northern Crusades and the Baltic ; The medieval papacy, 1309-1449 ; Medieval anti-Semitism : from the Crusades to the Counter-Reformation ; The English church, 1066-1485 ; Christianity and witchcraft in Europe ; The Proto-Reformation ; The church on the eve of the Reformation ;Luther and the German Reformation ; Zwingli and the Reformation in Zurich ; Calvin and Geneva ; The Reformation and the Civil War in France ; The English church, 1485-1603 ; The Reformation in Scotland, 1472-1603 ; The Northern Reformation ; The Inquisition ; The Jesuits ; The expansion of Christianity overseas ; The English Church, 1603-88 ; Religion in the American colonies and Canada, 1603-1776 ; Christianity in the Russian lands ; Christianity and the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1763 ; Christianity in the eighteenth century : the age of rationalism ; The English church, 1689-1837 ; The Church, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era, 1789-1815 ; The papacy in the Age of Revolution, 1789-1848 ; Church and state in Western Europe, 1848-1914 ; Holy Russia : the Orthodox church, 1762-1917 ; Christianity and the Ottoman Empire, 1774-1923 ; The growth of religious toleration in Continental Europe, 1782-1905 ; Religion in America, 1776-1914 ; The rise of Black religion in America, 1787-1918 ; The spread of new religious movements in America (to 1940) ; The religious question in Ireland, 1691-1871 ; The English church, 1828-1939 ; The missionaries and Africa, 1752-1913 ; The missionaries and India, 1698-1857 ; The missionaries in Australasia and the Pacific ; The missionaries and the Far East
The missionaries and South America, 1815-1914 ; The growth of independent African Christian movements, 1872-1966; The church in the age of the dictators, 1918-45 ; Christianity under communism, 1917-90 ; The Catholic church and the modern world -; The Anglican church since 1939 ; Religion in America since 1914 ; Modern Pentecostalism ; The modern ecumenical movement ; Dialogue and debate : Christianity and the non-Christian world
Pt. II. Glossary of terms and events
Pt. III. Compendium of lists, tables and statistics ; The spread of Christianity ; Persecution and martyrdom
The religious orders ; The military orders ; The modern missionary age ; The development of Christian doctrine ; Pilgrimages and cults ; Church membership in the modern era ; Selected offices and office holders.