The Rise of Western Christendom

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.

ISBN 0631221387   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780631221388 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 800 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Published in Oxford Imprint Blackwell Publishers   Series title Making of Europe Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780631221371 Publication date 27 Nov 2002   Height (mm) 229 Library of Congress 2002003526   Width (mm) 155 DEWEY 270   Spine width (mm) 30 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Undergraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate Pages 640

		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
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"Most scholars would have been content to let a book as fine as the first edition of The Rise of Western Christendom rest on its laurels. Not so Peter Brown. He has taken note of the recent outburst of scholarship in this field, and has produced a yet richer work, which, with its extended notes and bibliography, will prove to be a mine for scholars and students for years to come." Ian Wood, University of Leeds <!--end--> "This outstanding revision of The Rise of Western Christendom will make this the book for the next generation and will stimulate countless revisions of long-accepted interpretations of the period 400-1000." Thomas F. X. Noble, University of Notre Dame "[The first edition] was a historical masterpiece before. But the author's mind has moved on: The second edition contains further development, has filled out a great deal of detail, revised much in the light of more recent work, and, especially, has made it very much more useful for serious students by providing references and notes." Robert Markus, University of Nottingham "A new book by Peter Brown always makes my heart beat faster...The addition of a dazzling range of new scholarly material makes the book a far more thorough treatment...My students will be reading it." Bryn Mawr Classical Review "In the second edition of his The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, AD 200-1000, Brown sets shimmering fragments of historical insight into a mosaic that is all the more splendid for its well-judged architecture, resulting in what may come to stand as the most satisfying contribution of an unusually distinguished career. With time, The Rise of Western Christendom may emerge as a milestone in the search for an account of the fall of Rome that genuinely breaks free of Gibbon's spell." Kate Cooper, Times Literary Supplement. "With its dexterous and confident handling of an array of subjects and disciplines, and its exhaustive and detailed endnotes and bibliography, this book has encapsulated and synthesized a burgeoning field of scholarship at the point of perhaps its greatest creativity and imagination" The Atlantic Monthly "The Rise of Western Christendom is a work of uncommon originality, prodigious learning, and literary grace." Robert Louis Wilken, National Review "It is an ashtonishing story, told in a way that keeps general themes clearly in sight while lovingly attending to the particularities of people, pracises and beliefs" First Choice

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