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Author:
Peter Heather
Publisher:
Knopf
Date:
April 4, 2023
A reinterpretation of the religious superstate that came to define both Europe and Christianity itself, by a medieval historian.
What The Reviewers Say
Christendom doesn’t feature protagonists, stories, rising and falling action, or shifting points of view. It’s a series of set pieces in which the animating presence is the historian.
Well-researched with extensive footnotes and bibliography. For history buffs who can’t get enough of this stuff..
In this fresh, prodigiously researched approach, the author uses relatively newly found sources to delineate the development of these historical progressions. First, Heather acknowledges Christianity’s failures in the course of its expansions. Second, he explores the diversity of Christian thought and practice through these years. Finally, he examines the reasons why people made the religious choices that they did.
Heather draws on careful scholarship to give due to the nuances of Christianity’s spread, and constructs a narrative that’s packed with specifics yet readable..
