The rise of Western Christendom : triumph and diversity, A.D. 200-1000
"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."-- Provided by publisher
eBook, English, 2013
10th anniversary rev. ed View all formats and editions
Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, West Sussex, 2013
dissertations
1 online resource (xlvii, 661 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps
9781118338810, 9781118338841, 9781299181403, 1118338812, 1118338847, 1299181406
827208389
"The Laws of Countries": Prologue and overview
Christianity and Empire
Tempora Christiana: Christian Times
Virtutes sanctorum ... strages gentium: "Deeds of Saints ... Slaughter of Nations"
On the Frontiers: Noricum, Ireland, and Francia
Reverentia, rusticitas: Caesarius of Arles to Gregory of Tours
Bishops, City, and Desert: East Rome
Regimen animarum: Gregory the Great
Powerhouses of Prayer: Monasticism in Western Europe
The Making of Sapiens: Religion and Culture in Continental Europe and in Ireland
Medicamenta paenitentiae: Columbanus
Christianity in Asia and the Rise of Islam
"The Changing of the Kingdoms": Christians under Islam
Christianities of the North: Ireland
Christianities of the North: the Saxons of Britain
Micro-Christendoms
The Crisis of the Image: the Byzantine Iconoclast Controversy
The Closing of the Frontier: Frisia and Germany
"To Rule the Christian People": Charlemagne
In geār dagum, "In Days of Yore": Northern Christendom and its Past
Gregory's World: Reverentia, Justice, and Peace