Description
| Product ID: | 9780691219219 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Princeton Classics |
| Title: | The Formation of Christendom |
| Authors: | Author: Judith Herrin |
| Page Count: | 568 |
| Subjects: | History of religion, History of religion, Christianity, Christianity |
| Description: | A groundbreaking history of how the Christian “West” emerged from the ancient Mediterranean worldIn this acclaimed history of Early Christendom, Judith Herrin shows how—from the sack of Rome in 410 to the coronation of Charlemagne in 800—the Christian “West” grew out of an ancient Mediterranean world divided between the Roman west, the Byzantine east, and the Muslim south. Demonstrating that religion was the period’s defining force, she reveals how the clash over graven images, banned by Islam, both provoked iconoclasm in Constantinople and generated a distinct western commitment to Christian pictorial narrative. In a new preface, Herrin discusses the book’s origins, reception, and influence. A groundbreaking history of how the Christian “West” emerged from the ancient Mediterranean world |
| Imprint Name: | Princeton University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Princeton University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-10-19 |