The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000

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Wiley, Dec 18, 2012 - History - 720 pages

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

About the author (2012)

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).

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000
Making of Europe
AuthorPeter Brown
Edition3, revised
PublisherWiley, 2012
ISBN1118338812, 9781118338810
Length720 pages
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