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A major reinterpretation of the religious superstate that came to define both Europe and Christianity itself, by one of our foremost medieval historians.
In the fourth century AD, a new faith grew out of Palestine, overwhelming the paganism of Rome and resoundingly defeating a host of other rival belief systems. Almost a thousand years later, all of Europe was controlled by Christian rulers, and the religion, ingrained within culture and society, exercised a monolithic hold over its population. But how did a small sect of isolated and intensely committed congregations become a mass movement centrally directed from Rome? As Peter Heather shows in this illuminating new history, there was nothing inevitable about Christendom's rise and eventual dominance. From Constantine the Great's pivotal conversion to Christianity to the crisis that followed the collapse of the Roman empire--which left the religion teetering on the edge of extinction--to the astonishing revolution of the eleventh century and beyond, out of which the Papacy emerged as the head of a vast international corporation, Heather traces Christendom's chameleonlike capacity for self-reinvention, as it not only defined a fledgling religion but transformed it into an institution that wielded effective authority across virtually all of the disparate peoples of medieval Europe. Authoritative, vivid, and filled with new insights, this is an unparalleled history of early Christianity.
Author
Peter Heather
Book Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Knopf Publishing Group
Published
April 2023
Weight
1063g
Dimensions
165 x 242 x 49 mm
ISBN
9780451494306
ISBN-10
045149430X
Eden Code
5699140
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Author/Creator: Peter Heather
ISBN: 9780451494306
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Release Date: April 2023
Weight: 1063g
Dimensions: 165 x 242 x 49 mm
Eden Code: 5699140