The rise of Western Christendom : triumph and diversity AD 200-1000

Bok av Peter Robert Lamont Brown
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