The transformation of the Roman West / Ian Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, I. N. (Ian N.), 1950- author.

Series:

Past imperfect (ARC Humanities Press)

Past imperfect

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church and state--Europe--History--To 1500.

Church and state.

Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Church history.

Church history--Middle Ages.

Rome--History--Empire, 284-476.

Rome.

Europe--History--392-814.

Europe.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 160 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leeds, UK : Arc Humanities Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The history of the Late Roman Empire in the West has been divided into two parallel worlds, analysed either as a political and economic transformation or as a religious and cultural one. But how do these relate one to another? In this concise and effective synthesis, Ian Wood considers some ways in which religion and the Church can be reintegrated into what has become a largely secular discourse. The Church was at the heart of the changes that look place at the end of the Western Empire, not only regarding religion, but indeed every aspect of politics and society. Wood contends that the institutionalisation of the Church on a huge scale was a key factor in the transformation which began in the early fourth century with an incipiently Christian Roman Empire and ended three hundred years later in a world of thoroughly Christianised kingdoms.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction. The End of the West Roman Empire: From Decline and Fall to Transformation of the Roman World

Chapter 1. Gibbon's Secondary Causes: "The Disorders of Military Despotism" and "the Division of Monarchy"

Chapter 2. Barbarism: "The Invasion and Settlements of the Barbarians of Germany and Scythia"

Chapter 3. Religion and the Transformation of the Roman World

Chapter 4. Religion: "The Rise, Establishment, and Sects of Christianity"

Chapter 5. Religious Reaction to the Fall of Rome

Chapter 6. Doctrinal Division

Chapter 7. The Impact of Christianity: A Quantitative Approach

Chapter 8. Clerics, Soldiers, Bureaucrats

Chapter 9. Ecclesiastical Endowment

Chapter 10. Beyond Gibbon and Rostovtzeff

Appendix. Clerical Ordinations

Further Reading

Bibliography

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-160).

ISBN:

9781942401452

1942401450

9781641899086

1641899085

9781942401445

1942401442

OCLC:

1049848579