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The formation of Christendom / Judith Herrin ; with a new preface by the author.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herrin, Judith, author.
- Series:
- Princeton classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Church history.
- Church history--Middle Ages.
- Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
- Church history--Primitive and early church.
- Mediterranean Region--Church history.
- Mediterranean Region.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 530 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First Princeton Classics paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "In this acclaimed history of Early Christendom, Judith Herrin shows how--from the sack of Rome in 410 to the coronation of Charlemagne in 800--the Christian "West" grew out of an ancient Mediterranean world divided between the Roman west, the Byzantine east, and the Muslim south. Demonstrating that religion was the period's defining force, she reveals how the clash over graven images, banned by Islam, both provoked iconoclasm in Constantinople and generated a distinct western commitment to Christian pictorial narrative. In a new preface, Herrin discusses the book's origins, reception, and influence." --Amazon.com.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I LATE ANTIQUITY
- 1. Romans and Non-Romans
- 2. Christian Influence in Late Antique Culture
- 3. The Churches in the Sixth Century: The Council of 553
- pt. II FROM CHRISTIAN SCHISM TO DIVISION
- Introduction to Part II
- 4. The Achievement of Gregory the Great
- 5. Byzantium Confronted by Islam
- 6. The Visigothic Alternative
- 7. The Roots of Christian Disunity, 649-92
- pt. III THE THREE HEIRS OF ROME
- Introduction to Part III
- 8. Eastern Iconoclasm: Islamic and Byzantine
- 9. Divergent Paths
- 10. The Carolingian Innovation
- 11. The Two Emperors of Christendom
- 12. Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Previous edition: 1987.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rebecca Pepper Sinkler Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780691219219
- 0691219214
- OCLC:
- 1268138428
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