Brown The Rise of Western Christendom

Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000, 10th Anniversary Revised Edition
3. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-33881-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 720 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Making of Europe

This tenth anniversary revised edition of the authoritative texton Christianity's first thousand years of history features anew 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 riseof an institution that came to wield enormous religious and secularpower.
* Clear and vivid history of Christianity'srise and its pivotal role in the making of Europe
* Written by the celebrated Princeton scholar whooriginated of the field of study known as 'lateantiquity'
* Includes a fully updated bibliography and index

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Peter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix
Preface to the Revised Anniversary Edition xi
Preface to the Second Edition xlviii
Introduction 1
Part I Empire and Aftermath: A.D . 200-500 35
1 "The Laws of Countries": Prologue and Overview37
2 Christianity and Empire 54
3 Tempora Christiana : Christian Times 72
4 Virtutes sanctorum . . . strages gentium : "Deeds ofSaints . . . Slaughter of Nations" 93
5 On the Frontiers: Noricum, Ireland, and Francia 123
Part II Divergent Legacies: A.D . 500-600 143
6 Reverentia, rusticitas : Caesarius of Arles to Gregory ofTours 145
7 Bishops, City, and Desert: East Rome 166
8 Regimen animarum : Gregory the Great 190
Part III The End of Ancient Christianity: A.D . 600-750217
9 Powerhouses of Prayer: Monasticism in Western Europe 219
10 The Making of a Sapiens : Religion and Culture in ContinentalEurope 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 underIslam 295
14 Christianities of the North: Ireland 321
15 Christianities of the North: The Saxons of Britain 340
16 Micro-Christendoms 355
Part IV New Christendoms: A.D . 750-1000 381
17 The Crisis of the Image: The Byzantine Iconoclast Controversy383
18 The Closing of the Frontier: Frisia and Germany 408
19 "To Rule the Christian People": Charlemagne434
20 In gçar dagum , "In Days of Yore": NorthernChristendom and its Past 464
Notes 490
Coordinated Chronological Tables 573
Bibliography 578
Primary Sources 578
Secondary Sources 589
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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).