Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity
Garth FowdenIn 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 rare breadth of vision, Fowden traces this transition from empire to commonwealth, and in the process exposes the sources of major cultural contours that still play a determining role in Europe and southwest Asia.
سال:
2020
ناشر کتب:
Princeton University Press
زبان:
english
صفحات:
232
ISBN 10:
140084424X
ISBN 13:
9781400844241
فائل:
PDF, 21.21 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2020
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