(P/B) THE RISE OF WESTERN CHRISTENDOM

Παρουσίαση

This tenth anniversary revised edition of the authoritative text on Christianity's first thousand years of history features a new preface, additional color images, and an updated bibliography. The essential general survey of medieval European Christendom, Brown's vivid prose charts the compelling and tumultuous rise of an institution that came to wield enormous religious and secular power.
- Clear and vivid history of Christianity's rise and its pivotal role in the making of Europe
- Written by the celebrated Princeton scholar who originated of the field of study known as 'late antiquity'
- Includes a fully updated bibliography and index. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Preface to the Revised Anniversary Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
PART I EMPIRE AND AFTERMATH: A.D. 200-500
1 "The Laws of Countries": Prologue and Overview
2 Christianity and Empire
3 Tempora Christiana : Christian Times
4 Virtutes sanctorum... strages gentium : "Deeds of Saints... Slaughter of Nations"
5 On the Frontiers: Noricum, Ireland, and Francia
PART II DIVERGENT LEGACIES: A.D. 500-600
6 Reverentia, rusticitas : Caesarius of Arles to Gregory of Tours
7 Bishops, City, and Desert: East Rome
8 Regimen animarum : Gregory the Great
PART III THE END OF ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY: A.D. 600-750
9 Powerhouses of Prayer: Monasticism in Western Europe
10 The Making of a Sapiens : Religion and Culture in Continental Europe and in Ireland
11 Medicamenta paenitentiae : Columbanus
12 Christianity in Asia and the Rise of Islam
13 "The Changing of the Kingdoms": Christians under Islam
14 Christianities of the North: Ireland
15 Christianities of the North: The Saxons of Britain
16 Micro-Christendoms
PART IV NEW CHRISTENDOMS: A.D. 750-1000
17 The Crisis of the Image: The Byzantine Iconoclast Controversy
18 The Closing of the Frontier: Frisia and Germany
19 "To Rule the Christian People": Charlemagne
20 In gcar dagum , "In Days of Yore": Northern Christendom and its Past
Notes
Coordinated Chronological Tables
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Index