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Early Medieval Christianities c. 600–c. 1100

Series The Cambridge History of Christianity, Volume 3

Edited by Thomas F.X. Noble and Julia M.H. Smith

Publication Date 2008

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521817752

Hardback ISBN-10
0521817757

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521817752

Overview

The key focus of this book is the vitality and dynamism of all aspects of Christian experience from late antiquity to the First Crusade. By putting the institutional and doctrinal history firmly in the context of Christianity's many cultural manifestations and lived formations everywhere from Afghanistan to Iceland, this volume of The Cambridge History of Christianity emphasizes the ever-changing, varied expressions of Christianity at both local and world level. The insights of many disciplines, including gender studies, codicology, archaeology and anthropology, are deployed to offer fresh interpretations which challenge the conventional truths concerning this formative period. Addressing eastern, Byzantine and western Christianity, it explores encounters between Christians and others, notably Jews, Muslims, and pagans; the institutional life of the church including law, reform and monasticism; the pastoral and sacramental contexts of worship, belief and morality; and finally its cultural and theological meanings, including heresy, saints' cults and the afterlife.

For more details of the
print book, and how to buy it online, please see
Early Medieval Christianities c. 600–c. 1100 in the Cambridge University Press online
catalogue.

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Frontmatter

Introduction: Christendom, c. 600
by
Peter Brown

Foundations: Peoples, Places, and Traditions

Christianity in Confrontation

Christianity in the Social and Political Order

Christianity as Lived Experience

Christianity: Books and Ideas

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