Peter Brown

The Rise of Western Christendom

Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000

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Produktbeschreibung

The publication of this revised edition of a masterwork by Princeton University's celebrated scholar of late antiquity marks the book's tenth anniversary. The book has undergone a thorough redesign and includes a new preface covering academic developments in the last ten years, revised common opinions, a fully updated bibliography, and additional color images. In a superbly realized account and compelling history, Brown charts the rise to prominence of a religion that began as an obscure sect in Roman Judaea and developed into Europe's dominant religious - and political - institution.

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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

Produktdetails

• Making of Europe .
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 3. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 720
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Abmessung: 231mm x 151mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 922g
• ISBN-13: 9781118301265
• ISBN-10: 1118301269
• Artikelnr.: 36393196

Autorenporträt

Peter Brown is Emeritus Professor of History at Princeton University. He is a celebrated scholar and author of numerous seminal historical works, which include Augustine of Hippo (1967, 2000), The World of Late Antiquity (1971), The Cult of the Saints (1982), The Body and Society (1988), Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire (1992), Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianization of the Roman World (1995), Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire (2002), and the forthcoming Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix Preface to the Revised Anniversary Edition xi
Preface to the Second Edition xlviii Introduction 1 Part 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 Part 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 Part
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 Part 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 gçar
dagum , "In Days of Yore": Northern Christendom and its Past 464 Notes 490
Coordinated Chronological Tables 573 Bibliography 578 Primary Sources 578
Secondary Sources 589 Index

Rezensionen

"Summing Up. Highly recommended. Especially libraries that lack the second edition; lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers." (Choice, 1 September 2013)