The rise of Western Christendom : triumph and diversity, A.D. 200-1000 /

"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 t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Peter, 1935-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
Edition:10th anniversary rev. ed.
Series:Making of Europe.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • "The Laws of Countries": Prologue and overview
  • Christianity and Empire
  • Tempora Christiana: Christian Times
  • Virtutes sanctorum ... strages gentium: "Deeds of Saints ... Slaughter of Nations"
  • On the Frontiers: Noricum, Ireland, and Francia
  • Reverentia, rusticitas: Caesarius of Arles to Gregory of Tours
  • Bishops, City, and Desert: East Rome
  • Regimen animarum: Gregory the Great
  • Powerhouses of Prayer: Monasticism in Western Europe
  • The Making of Sapiens: Religion and Culture in Continental Europe and in Ireland
  • Medicamenta paenitentiae: Columbanus
  • Christianity in Asia and the Rise of Islam
  • "The Changing of the Kingdoms": Christians under Islam
  • Christianities of the North: Ireland
  • Christianities of the North: the Saxons of Britain
  • Micro-Christendoms
  • The Crisis of the Image: the Byzantine Iconoclast Controversy
  • The Closing of the Frontier: Frisia and Germany
  • "To Rule the Christian People": Charlemagne
  • In geār dagum, "In Days of Yore": Northern Christendom and its Past.