Book description
This 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. The essential
general survey of medieval European Christendom, Brown's vivid prose
charts the compelling and tumultuous rise of an institution that came
to wield enormous religious and secular power.
• Clear and vivid history of Christianity's rise and its pivotal role
in the making of Europe
• Written by the celebrated Princeton
scholar who originated of the field of study known as 'late
antiquity'
• Includes a fully updated bibliography and index
Peter Brown is Emeritus Professor of History at Princeton
University. He is a celebrated scholar and author of numerous seminal
historical works, which include Augustine of Hippo (1967,
2000), The World of Late Antiquity (1971), The Cult of the
Saints (1982), The Body and Society (1988), Power and
Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire (1992),
Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianization of
the Roman World (1995), Poverty and Leadership in the Later
Roman Empire (2002), and the forthcoming Through the Eye of a
Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in
the West, 350-550 AD (2012).
