| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
xxix, 476 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Originally published as: Millennium : the end of the world and the forging of Christendom. London : Little, Brown, 2008. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-462) and index. |
| Contents |
The return of the king -- The old order changeth-- -- --Yielding place to the new -- Go west -- Apocalypse postponed -- 1066 and all that -- An inconvenient truth. |
| Summary |
With an epic sweep that transports us from the crucifixion to the First Crusade, and from the glitter of Constantinople to the bleak shores of Canada, Tom Holland's The Forge of Christendom is a brilliant study of a truly fateful revolution: the emergence of Western Europe for the first time as a distinctive and expansionist power. It was the age of Otto the Great and William the Conqueror, of Caliphs and Viking sea-kings, of hermits, monks, and serfs. It witnessed the spread of castles, the invention of knighthood, and the founding of a papal monarchy. Above all, it brought people to fear that the end days might be at hand, and yet also -- with an effort so prodigious that it has the power to move us still -- to invent themselves anew. --from pubisher description |
| Subject |
Church history.
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| Added Title |
Millennium
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| ISBN |
9780385520584 |
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0385520581 |
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