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Rise of Western Christendom, The

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Outline: This is a haistory of the people, struggles, defeats and victories, ideas and actions that together comprise the history of the first one thousand years of Christianity. It ranges accross the whole of Asia Minor, North Africa and Europe. It both captures the immediacy of decisive moments and explains how by the end of the period Christianity had become the dominant factor in political power and cultural life throughout the region. By establishing itself within the framework of two empires, the Roman and the Persian Sasanian, Christendom inherited from its beginnings their double universalism. The author traces the history of the distinctly Eastern Christendoms, centred first in Byzantium and later spreading to the Balkans and to Russia, and of Western Christendom focused on Rome but with powerfully independent centres in France, Germany, England and Ireland. The author explores the origins of monastic life in the Coptic chuch of Egypt and charts its gradual spread throughout the West. He recreates the vibrancy of Christian cultures and their claims to be the universal "true" Christianity, and shows how the rise of centralized of Christianity were associated with the renewed imperial systems of Byzantium ad the Carolingian Empire. The author describes the explosive rise of Islam among the nomadic tribes of Arabia and its impact on Christianity, first in the Middle East and then in the Byzantine Empire and Western Europe, and examines the origins of the great contests between the two faiths. The author show how, especially in North and Eastern Europe, the memories of a pagan past became part of the culture of what was now an officially Christian world. A distinctive relation between past and present, between profane and sacred, has emerged in Western Christendom by AD1000, and a civilization which was by then irrevocably different from the Christendoms of the East. This book moves constantly from the religious and theological to the social and secular. It combines vivid evocations of people and places within a wide perspective of space and time, and structures the whole in a coherent and compelling narrative. It aims both to inform and to entertain, and succeeds most notably in doing so.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

274 B877r

Penerbit

Massachusetts, USA : Blackwell Publishers., 1996

Deskripsi Fisik

353

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

1-55786-136-6

Klasifikasi

274

Tipe Isi

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Edisi

First Edition

Subjek

Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Church History -- Primitive and Early Church, ca.

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