Christendom

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4 ediciones

Christendom

Editorial: Vintage

ISBN: 978-11-0197-410-0

ISBN sin guiones: 9781101974100

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 752

Fecha de publicación: 2025-04-22

Idioma: inglés (Estados Unidos)

Christendom

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4198-853-5

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141988535

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 736

Fecha de publicación: 2023-10-26

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

Christendom

Editorial: allen_lane

ISBN: 978-02-4163-950-4

ISBN sin guiones: 9780241639504

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 1428

Fecha de publicación: 2022-12-22

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

Christendom

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-02-4121-592-0

ISBN sin guiones: 9780241215920

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 736

Fecha de publicación: 2022-10-27

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

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Christendom

Peter Heather

Primera publicación: 2022-10-27

In 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.