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The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity 200-1000 AD (Making of Europe)
by: Peter Brown

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 274
EAN: 9780631221388
ISBN: 0631221387
Label: WileyBlackwell
Manufacturer: WileyBlackwell
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 640
Publication Date: November 27, 2002
Publisher: WileyBlackwell
Studio: WileyBlackwell
Sales Rank: 30997

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- Breadth of vision and insight on the shaping of Christian Europe
This massive and scholarly work is a penetrating account of the rise of Christianity in the West from roughly 150 CE to the year 1000 of our era. In a similar way to his shorter work `Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity', Brown examines how Christianity gradually supplanted all other rival claimants to rulership in a new `conglomeration of power, culture and religious expertise'. Though sometimes imperceptibly slowly, and as much through the mingling of cultures on the Roman empire's borders as by any other means, Christianity came to look like the `natural' successor to Roman overlordship in the Western empire. Other belief systems - the pre-Christian Irish kingdoms, the ways of the pagan Saxons and Franks - gradually lose out to the ... Read More:

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- Deep and wide
Peter Brown first came to my attention through his scholarship in the study of Augustine, one of my particular interests in the field of church history. His biography of Augustine is considered one of the standards, having been written first in the 1960s, and revised for the turn of the millennium in 2000. This speaks to the length of his career and involvement with the study of church history generally, of which this volume is a wonderful survey.

This book, 'The Rise of Western Christendom', looks at the first 1000 years (the first half of Christian history). Despite its title, it does not focus exclusively on the idea of Christianity as a Western phenomenon. One of the great strengths of this historical survey, as opposed to many ... Read More:

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