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The Transformation of the Roman West
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Title
The Transformation of the Roman West [electronic resource] / Ian Wood.
ISBN
9781942401445
9781942401438
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Leeds [England] : Arc Humanities Press, [2018] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 PDF (x, 160 pages)).
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Summary
The Church was at the heart of the political and social, as well as the religious changes that look place in the Roman West from the fourth to seventh centuries. 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, and he contends that the institutionalisation of the Church on a huge scale was a key factor in the transformation from an incipiently Christian Roman Empire to a world of thoroughly Christianised kingdoms.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2018 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2018 History.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 13, 2018
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [139]-160).
Contents
Introduction. The end of the West Roman Empire : from decline and fall to transformation of the Roman world
Gibbon's secondary causes : "the disorders of military despotism" and "the division of monarchy"
Barbarism : "the invasion and settlements of the barbarians of Germany and Scythia"
Religion and the transformation of the Roman world
Religion : "the rise, establishment, and sects of Christianity"
Religious reaction to the fall of Rome
Doctrinal division
The impact of Christianity : a quantitative approach
Clerics, soldiers, bureaucrats
Ecclesiastical endowment
Beyond Gibbon and Rostovtzeff
Appendix. Clerical ordinations.
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Electronic books.
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