The rise of Western Christendom : triumph and diversity, AD 200-1000
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The rise of Western Christendom : triumph and diversity, AD 200-1000
（The making of Europe）
Blackwell, 1996
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Bibliography: p. [322]-328
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This work is a history of the people, struggles, defeats and victories, ideas and actions that together comprise the history of the first 1000 years of Christianity. It ranges across the whole of Asia Minor, North Africa and Europe. It both captures the immediacy of decisive moments and explains the nature of the processes by which the end of the period had established Christianity as the single greatest factor in political power and cultural life throughout the region. By establishing itself within the framework of two empires, the Roman and the Persian Sassanidic, Christendom inherited their double universality from its beginnings. The book traces the history of the distinctly Eastern Christendoms centred first in Byzantium and later spreading to the Balkans and to Russia, and the Western Christendoms focused on Rome but with powerfully independent centres in France, Germany, England and Ireland. It explores the origins of monastic life in the Coptic Church of Egypt, and charts its gradual spread throughout the West.
The book recreates the vibrancy of Christian cultures and their claims to be the universal "true" Christianity, and shows how the rise of centralized forms of Christianity were associated with the renewed imperial systems of Byzantium and in the Carolingiam Empire. The book describes, too, the rise of Islam and its effect on the 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. Finally the author shows 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, profane and sacred had emerged in Western Christendom by 1000 AD, and a civilization which was by then irrevocably different from the Christendoms of the East. The book moves constantly from the religious and theological to the social and secular. It combines evocations of people and places within a wide perspective of space and time, and structures the whole in a coherent narrative.
目次
- Part 1 Empire and aftermath - 200-500 AD: "the laws of countries"
- Christianity and empire
- tempora Christiana - Christian times
- virtutes sanctorum... strages gentium - "deeds of saints... slaughter of nations"
- on the frontiers - Noricum, Ireland and Francia. Part 2 Divergent legacies - 500-750 AD: reverentia, rusticitas - Caesarius of Arles to Gregory of Tours
- Bishops, city and desert - East Rome
- regimen animarum - Gregory the Great
- medicamenta paenitentiae - Columbanus
- Christianity in Asia
- "the changing of the kingdoms" - Christians under Islam
- Christianities of the north - Ireland and Saxon Britain
- micro-Christendoms. Part 3 The end of an ancient world - 750-1000 AD: the crisis of the image - the Byzantine iconoclast controversy
- closing the frontier - Frisia and Germany
- "to rule the Christian people" - Charlemagne
- in gear dagum - "in days of yore" - Northern Christendom and its past.
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