The Formation Of Christendom by Judith Herrin
The book traces Christianity's rise from the collapse of the Roman world through the early medieval centuries, showing how conversion, church institutions, monasticism, and liturgy reshaped societies and created a pan-European Christian culture. It analyzes interactions between Byzantium and the Latin West, the conversion of barbarian kingdoms, and the evolving relationships of church and state that produced new political and cultural identities. Combining political, religious, and social history, it argues that Christendom emerged as a distinct civilizational order through complex cultural synthesis rather than simple continuity from Rome.
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- 1987
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