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This Is A History Of The People, Struggles, Defeats And Victories, Ideas And Actions That Together Comprise The History Of The First One Thousand Years Of Christianity. It Ranges Across Much Of Asia, North Africa And Europe. It Both Captures The Immediacy Of Decisive Moments And Explains How By The End Of The Period Christianity Had Become The Dominant Factor In Political Power And Cultural Life Throughout The Region. By Establishing Itself Within The Framework Of Two Empires, The Roman And The Persian Sasanian, Christendom Inherited From Its Beginnings Their Double Universalism. The Author Traces The History Of The Distinctly Eastern Christendoms, Of Western Christendom Focused On Rome But With Powerfully Independent Centres In France, Germany, England And Ireland. He Recreates The Vibrancy Of Christian Cultures And Their Claims To Be The Universal 'true' Christianity, And Shows How The Rise Of Centralized Forms Of Christianity Were Associated With The Renewed Imperial Systems Of Byzantium And The Carolingian Empire. He Examines The Impact Of Other Religious Traditions On The Development Of Christianity. He Describes Reactions To The Explosive Rise Of Islam, And Explains How, Espe

Author

Peter Brown, Peter Robert Lamont Brown

Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9781557861368

Subjects

Religion, Christian, History