Greek Church has never recovered; and out of which Western Christianity only slowly emerged till, in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the reforms of Hildebrand, the rise of Scholasticism, and the proclamation of the Crusades, together with minor causes, co-operated to bring in the third great culmination—the powerful Catholic preaching of the thirteenth century. Again decline, swift and fearful, followed. But in the decay and shames of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries there were heard occasional