ISBN13: | 9780141988535 |
ISBN10: | 0141988533 |
Kötéstípus: | Puhakötés |
Terjedelem: | oldal |
Méret: | 196x128x38 mm |
Súly: | 520 g |
Nyelv: | angol |
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Vallástudomány általában
Kereszténység
Történettudomány általában, módszertana
Őskor, ókor (a római birodalom bukásáig)
Középkor (XV. század végéig)
Európa történelme
További könyvek a történettudomány területén
Vallástudomány általában (karitatív célú kampány)
Kereszténység (karitatív célú kampány)
Történettudomány általában, módszertana (karitatív célú kampány)
Őskor, ókor (a római birodalom bukásáig) (karitatív célú kampány)
Középkor (XV. század végéig) (karitatív célú kampány)
Európa történelme (karitatív célú kampány)
További könyvek a történettudomány területén (karitatív célú kampány)
Christendom
GBP 18.99
Kattintson ide a feliratkozáshoz
A Prosperónál jelenleg nincsen raktáron.
'A fascinating story about a religion in a surprisingly precarious position' Dan Jones, Sunday Times
'Superb storytelling ... captivating and profound' Literary Review
'A page-turner' The Spectator
In the fourth century AD, a new faith exploded out of Palestine. Overwhelming the paganism of Rome, and converting the Emperor Constantine in the process, it resoundingly defeated a host of other rivals. Almost a thousand years later, all of Europe was controlled by Christian rulers, and the religion, ingrained within culture and society, exercised a monolithic hold over its population. But, as Peter Heather shows in this compelling history, there was nothing inevitable about Christendom's rise to Europe-wide dominance.
In exploring how the Christian religion became such a defining feature of the European landscape, and how a small sect of isolated congregations was transformed into a mass movement centrally directed from Rome, Heather shows how Christendom constantly battled against both so-called 'heresies' and other forms of belief. From the crisis that followed the collapse of the Roman Empire, which left the religion teetering on the edge of extinction, to the astonishing revolution in which the Papacy emerged as the head of a vast international corporation, Heather traces Christendom's chameleon-like capacity for self-reinvention and willingness to mobilize well-directed force.
Christendom's achievement was not, or not only, to define official Christianity, but - from its scholars and its lawyers, to its provincial officials and missionaries in far-flung corners of the continent - to transform it into an institution that wielded effective religious authority across nearly all of the disparate peoples of medieval Europe. This is its extraordinary story.