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The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity A.D. 200-1000 (The Making of Europe Series) » (22nd Edition)
Authors: Peter Brown, Peter Brown
ISBN-13: 9780631221388, ISBN-10: 0631221387
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: January 2003
Edition: 22nd Edition
Author Biography: Peter Brown
Peter Brown is a graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA and now lives in Brooklyn, NY. His Web site is somebrownstuff.com.
Book Synopsis
This book offers a vivid, compelling history of the first thousand years of Christianity. For the second edition, the book has been thoroughly rewritten and expanded. It includes two new chapters, as well as an extensive preface in which the author reflects on the scholarly traditions which have influenced his work and explains his current thinking about the book's themes.
- New edition of popular account of the first 1000 years of Christianity.
- Thoroughly rewritten, with extensive new preface of author's current thinking.
- Includes new maps, substantial bibliography, and numerous chronological tables.
Table of Contents
| List of Maps | ||
| Preface | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. I | Empire and Aftermath: A.D. 200-500 | 35 |
| 1 | "The Laws of Countries": Prologue and Overview | 37 |
| 2 | Christianity and Empire | 54 |
| 3 | Tempora Christiana: Christian Times | 72 |
| 4 | Virtutes sanctorum ... strages gentium: "Deeds of Saints ... Slaughter of Nations" | 93 |
| 5 | On the Frontiers: Noricum, Ireland, and Francia | 123 |
| Pt. II | Divergent Legacies: A.D. 500-600 | 143 |
| 6 | Reverentia, rusticitas: Caesarius of Arles to Gregory of Tours | 145 |
| 7 | Bishops, City, and Desert: East Rome | 166 |
| 8 | Regimen animarum: Gregory the Great | 190 |
| Pt. III | The End of Ancient Christianity: A.D. 600-750 | 217 |
| 9 | Powerhouses of Prayer: Monasticism in Western Europe | 219 |
| 10 | The Making of a Sapiens: Religion and Culture in Continental Europe and in Ireland | 232 |
| 11 | Medicamenta paenitentiae: Columbanus | 248 |
| 12 | Christianity in Asia and the Rise of Islam | 267 |
| 13 | "The Changing of the Kingdoms": Christians under Islam | 295 |
| 14 | Christianities of the North: Ireland | 321 |
| 15 | Christianities of the North: The Saxons of Britain | 340 |
| 16 | Micro-Christendoms | 355 |
| Pt. IV | New Christendoms: A.D. 750-1000 | 381 |
| 17 | The Crisis of the Image: The Byzantine Iconoclast Controversy | 383 |
| 18 | The Closing of the Frontier: Frisia and Germany | 408 |
| 19 | "To Rule the Christian People": Charlemagne | 434 |
| 20 | In gear dagum, "In Day of Yore": Northern Christendom and its Past | 463 |
| Notes | 489 | |
| Coordinated Chronological Tables | 549 | |
| Bibliography | 554 | |
| Index | 599 |
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