Christendom
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'A fascinating story about a religion in a surprisingly precarious
position' Dan Jones, Sunday Times'Superb storytelling ...
captivating and profound' Literary Review'A page-turner' The
SpectatorIn the fourth century AD, a new faith exploded out of
Palestine. Overwhelming the paganism of Rome, and converting the
Emperor Constantine in the process, it resoundingly defeated a host
of other rivals.Almost a thousand years later, all of Europe was
controlled by Christian rulers, and the religion, ingrained within
culture and society, exercised a monolithic hold over its
population. But, as Peter Heather shows in this compelling history,
there was nothing inevitable about Christendom's rise to
Europe-wide dominance. In exploring how the Christian religion
became such a defining feature of the European landscape, and how a
small sect of isolated congregations was transformed into a mass
movement centrally directed from Rome, Heather shows how
Christendom constantly battled against both so-called 'heresies'
and other forms of belief.From the crisis that followed the
collapse of the Roman Empire, which left the religion teetering on
the edge of extinction, to the astonishing revolution in which the
Papacy emerged as the head of a vast international corporation,
Heather traces Christendom's chameleon-like capacity for
self-reinvention and willingness to mobilize well-directed force.
Christendom's achievement was not, or not only, to define official
Christianity, but - from its scholars and its lawyers, to its
provincial officials and missionaries in far-flung corners of the
continent - to transform it into an institution that wielded
effective religious authority across nearly all of the disparate
peoples of medieval Europe. This is its extraordinary story.
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Penguin Books ,
Peter Heather
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Penguin Books,
Peter Heather
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Slovart
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