The First Thousand Years
Subtitle: a global history of Christianity
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Haven, CT
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780300198386
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Beginning in Jerusalem; title: Ephesus, Rome, and Edessa: the spread of Christianity; title: The making of a Christian community; title: Divisions within; title: Constructing a catacomb; title: A learned faith: Origen of Alexandria; title: Persecution: Cyprian of Carthage; title: A Christian emperor: Constantine; title: The Council of Nicaea and the Christian creed; title: Monasticism; title: A Christian Jerusalem; title: Emperor Julian, the Jews, and Christians; title: Bishop and Emperor: Ambrose and Theodosius; title: Architecture and art; title: Music and worship; title: The sick, the aged, and the poor : the birth of hospitals; title: The Bishop of Rome as pope; title: An ordered Christian society: canon law; title: Augustine of Hippo; title: The great controversy over Christ; title: Egypt and the Copts: Nubia; title: African Zion: Ethiopia; title: Syriac-speaking Christians: the Church of the East; title: Armenia and Georgia; title: Central Asia, China, and India; title: A Christian empire: Justinian; title: New beginnings in the West; title: Latin Christianity spreads north; title: The sacking of Jerusalem: more controversy over Christ; title: No God but God: the rise of Islam; title: Images and the making of Byzantium; title: Arabic-speaking Christians; title: Christians under Islam: Egypt and North Africa; title: Christians under Islam: Spain; title: An emperor in the West: Charlemagne; title: Christianity among the Slavs; title: Afterword; title: Chronology and maps; title: Suggested readings; title: Translations