The Rise of Western Christendom Triumph and Diversity 200-1000 AD

by Brown, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780631221388
• ISBN10: 0631221387
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Peter Brown is Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, and the Royal Historical Society. His previous books include Augustine of Hippo: A biography (1967, second revised edition, 2000); Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity (1982); The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (1989); Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire (1992) and Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire (2001).

Table of Contents

List of Maps	ix
Preface	x
Introduction	1	(34)
Part I: Empire and Aftermath: A.D. 200--500	35	(108)
``The Laws of Countries'': Prologue and Overview	37	(17)
Christianity and Empire	54	(18)
Tempora Christiana: Christian Times	72	(21)
Virtutes sanctorum . . . strages gentium: ``Deeds of Saints . . . Slaughter of Nations''	93	(30)
On the Frontiers: Noricum, Ireland, and Francia	123	(20)
Part II: Divergent Legacies: A.D. 500--600	143	(74)
Reverentia, rusticitas: Caesarius of Arles to Gregory of Tours	145	(21)
Bishops, City, and Desert: East Rome	166	(24)
Regimen animarum: Gregory the Great	190	(27)
Part III: The End of Ancient Christianity: A.D. 600--750	217	(164)
Powerhouses of Prayer: Monasticism in Western Europe	219	(13)
The Making of a Sapiens: Religion and Culture in Continental Europe and in Ireland	232	(16)
Medicamenta paenitentiae: Columbanus	248	(19)
Christianity in Asia and the Rise of Islam	267	(28)
``The Changing of the Kingdoms'': Christians under Islam	295	(26)
Christianities of the North: Ireland	321	(19)
Christianities of the North: The Saxons of Britain	340	(15)
Micro-Christendoms	355	(26)
Part IV: New Christendoms: A.D. 750--1000	381	(108)
The Crisis of the Image: The Byzantine Iconoclast Controversy	383	(25)
The Closing of the Frontier: Frisia and Germany	408	(26)
``To Rule the Christian People'': Charlemagne	434	(29)
In gear dagum, ``In Days of Yore'': Northern Christendom and its Past	463	(26)
Notes	489	(60)
Coordinated Chronological Tables	549	(5)
Bibliography	554	(45)
Primary Sources	554	(10)
Secondary Sources	564	(35)
Index	599