Cambridge History of Christianity
Subtitle: Christianity in Western Europe, C.1000-c.1500
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 30, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 577
ISBN-13: 9780521811064
Subjects: History; Christianity - History - General; Religion
Description: This series offers a comprehensive chronological account of the development of Christianity in all its aspects theological, intellectual, social, political, regional, global from its beginnings to the present day. Each volume makes a substantial contribution in its own right to the scholarship of its period and the complete History constitutes a major work of academic reference. Far from being merely a history of Western European Christianity and its offshoots, the History aims to provide a global perspective. Eastern and Coptic Christianity are given full consideration from the early period onwards, and later, African, Far Eastern, New World, South Asian and other non-European developments in Christianity receive proper coverage. The volumes cover popular piety and non-formal expressions of Christian faith and treat the sociology of Christian formation, worship and devotion in a broad cultural context. The question of relations between Christianity and other major faiths is also kept in sight throughout. - Publisher.