Description
Book SynopsisThis tenth anniversary revised edition of the authoritative text on Christianity s first thousand years of history features a new preface, additional color images, and an updated bibliography.
Trade Review"Summing Up. Highly recommended. Especially libraries that lack the second edition; lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers." (Choice, 1 September 2013)
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix
Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Revised Edition xi
Preface to the Second Edition xlviii
Introduction 1
Part I Empire and Aftermath: A.D. 200–500 35
1 “The Laws of Countries”: Prologue and Overview 37
2 Christianity and Empire 54
3 Tempora Christiana: Christian Times 72
4 Virtutes sanctorum . . . strages gentium: “Deeds of Saints . . . Slaughter of Nations” 93
5 On the Frontiers: Noricum, Ireland, and Francia 123
Part II Divergent Legacies: A.D. 500–600 143
6 Reverentia, rusticitas: Caesarius of Arles to Gregory of Tours 145
7 Bishops, City, and Desert: East Rome 166
8 Regimen animarum: Gregory the Great 190
Part III The End of Ancient Christianity: A.D. 600–750 217
9 Powerhouses of Prayer: Monasticism in Western Europe 219
10 The Making of a Sapiens: Religion and Culture in Continental Europe and in Ireland 232
11 Medicamenta paenitentiae: Columbanus 248
12 Christianity in Asia and the Rise of Islam 267
13 “The Changing of the Kingdoms”: Christians under Islam 295
14 Christianities of the North: Ireland 321
15 Christianities of the North: The Saxons of Britain 340
16 Micro-Christendoms 355
Part IV New Christendoms: A.D. 750–1000 381
17 The Crisis of the Image: The Byzantine Iconoclast Controversy 383
18 The Closing of the Frontier: Frisia and Germany 408
19 “To Rule the Christian People”: Charlemagne 434
20 In geār dagum, “In Days of Yore”: Northern Christendom and its Past 464
Notes 490
Coordinated Chronological Tables 573
Bibliography 578
Primary Sources 578
Secondary Sources 589
Index 632
