{"product_id":"the-rise-of-western-christendom-triumph-and-diversity-a-d-200-1000","title":"The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis tenth anniversary revised edition of the authoritative text on Christianity's first thousand years of history features a new preface, additional color images, and an updated bibliography. The essential general survey of medieval European Christendom, Brown's vivid prose charts the compelling and tumultuous rise of an institution that came to wield enormous religious and secular power.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eClear and vivid history of Christianity's rise and its pivotal role in the making of Europe\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten by the celebrated Princeton scholar who originated of the field of study known as 'late antiquity'\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes a fully updated bibliography and index\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Brown\u003c\/b\u003e is Emeritus Professor of History at Princeton University. He is a celebrated scholar and author of numerous seminal historical works, which include \u003ci\u003eAugustine of Hippo\u003c\/i\u003e (1967, 2000), \u003ci\u003eThe World of Late Antiquity\u003c\/i\u003e (1971), \u003ci\u003eThe Cult of the Saints\u003c\/i\u003e (1982), \u003ci\u003eThe Body and Society\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), \u003ci\u003e Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire\u003c\/i\u003e (1992), \u003ci\u003eAuthority\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianization of the Roman World\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), \u003ci\u003ePoverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), and the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eThrough the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD\u003c\/i\u003e (2012).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50556682600722,"sku":"9781118301265","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bed46dcb-c54d-4a6c-8bca-dc48a2c4a998.jpg?v=1731759814","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-rise-of-western-christendom-triumph-and-diversity-a-d-200-1000","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}