The Rise of Western Christendom

This tenth anniversary revised edition of the authoritative texton Christianity's first thousand years of history features anew 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 riseof an institution that came to wield enormous religious and secularpower. * Clear and vivid history of Christianity'srise and its pivotal role in the making of Europe * Written by the celebrated Princeton scholar whooriginated of the field of study known as 'lateantiquity' * Includes a fully updated bibliography and index