rise of Western Christendom
Subtitle: triumph and diversity, AD 200-1000
By: Peter Brown.
Series: The Making of Europe
Publisher: Blackwell
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Malden, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600; Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-350) and index.
Table of contents: title: "The laws of countries"; title: Christianity and empire; title: Tempora Christiana: Christian times; title: Virtutes Sanctorum...Strages Gentium: "Deeds of Saints...Slaughter of nations"; title: On the frontiers: Noricum, Ireland and Francia; title: Reverentia, Rusticitas: Caesarius of Arles to Gregory of Tours; title: Bishops, city and desert: East Rome; title: Regimen Animarum: Gregory the Great; title: Medicamenta Paenitentiae: Columbanus; title: Christianity in Asia; title: "The changing of the kingdoms:" Christians under Islam; title: Christianities of the North: Ireland and Saxon Britain; title: Micro-Christendoms; title: The crisis of the image: The Byzantine iconoclast controversy; title: Closing the frontier: Frisia and Germany; title: "To rule the Christian people:" Charlemagne; title: In Gear Dagum: "In days of yore" - Northern Christendom and its past.