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Christianity and paganism, 350-750 : the conversion of Western Europe / edited by J.N. Hillgarth.
LIBRA BR200 .C47 1986
Available from offsite location
LIBRA BR200 .C47 1986
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Middle Ages series
- Middle Ages.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Sources.
- Church history.
- Church history--Middle Ages--Sources.
- Europe--Church history--600-1500--Sources.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 213 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Other Title:
- Conversion of Western Europe, 350-750.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986, c1969.
- Summary:
- Using sermons, exorcisms, letters, biographies of the saints, inscriptions, autobiographical and legal documents--some of which are translated nowhere else--J. N. Hillgarth shows how the Christian church went about the formidable task of converting western Europe. The book covers such topics as the relationship between the Church and the Roman state, Christian attitudes toward the barbarians, and the missions to northern Europe. It documents as well the cult of relics in popular Christianity and the emergence of consciously Christian monarchies.
- Notes:
- Rev. ed. of: The conversion of Western Europe, 350-750. 1969.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 205-206.
- ISBN:
- 081227993X
- OCLC:
- 11866537
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