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Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity
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| #808810 in Books | Princeton University Press | 1994-11-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x.51 x6.14l,.74 | File type: PDF | 205 pages | ||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Entertaining history with a thesis.|By A Customer|Styles in historiography come and go. For the classical Greek historians, history was partly the clever strategies of great generals, partly the well-cadenced speeches that should have been made, some descriptions of strange cultures, some geography. For the medieval chroniclers, history was melodrama: great ba||"An intelligent essay. . . . [It] should open new cooperation between scholars of late antiquity and early Christianity, and scholars of early Islam."--Choice
"A tight, powerful volume that, among other things, makes some fairly revolu
In this bold approach to late antiquity, Garth Fowden shows how, from the second-century peak of Rome's prosperity to the ninth-century onset of the Islamic Empire's decline, powerful beliefs in One God were used to justify and strengthen "world empires." But tensions between orthodoxy and heresy that were inherent in monotheism broke the unitary empires of Byzantium and Baghdad into the looser, more pluralistic commonwealths of Eastern Christendom and Islam. With rar...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity | Garth Fowden. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
