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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2013.
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| 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.