The transformation of the Roman West /

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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 b...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wood, I. N. (Ian N.), 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Latín
Published: Leeds : ARC Humanities Press, [2018]
Series:Past imperfect (ARC Humanities Press)
Subjects:
To 1500
Church and state > Europe > History > To 1500.
Church history > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Église > Histoire > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
Church and state
Church history > Middle Ages
Rome > History > Empire, 284-476.
Europe > History > 392-814.
Rome > Histoire > 284-476 (Bas-Empire)
Europe > Histoire > 392-814.
Europe
Rome (Empire)
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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