| The Church in the Early Middle Ages: The I.B.Tauris History of the Christian Church Contributor(s): Evans, G. R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1845111508 ISBN-13: 9781845111502 Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2007 Annotation: The creation of a new history of the Church at the beginning of the third millennium is an ambitious but necessary project. Perhaps nowhere is it needed more than in re-describing the Church's development - its life and its thinking - in the period that followed the end of the 'early Church' in antiquity. The cultural, social and political dominance of Christendom in what we now call "the West," from about 600-1300, made the Christian Church a shaper of the modern world in respects which go far beyond its religious infleunce. Writing with her customary authority, and with a magisterial grasp of the original sources, G R Evans brings this formative era vividly to life both for the student of religious history and general reader. She concentrates as much on the colorful human episodes of the time as on broader institutional and intellectual developments. The result is a compelling and thoroughly modern introduction to devotional and theological thought in the early Middle Ages as well as to ecclesiastical and pastoral life at large. NEW SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT THE I.B.TAURIS HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHThe Christian Church, first defined as a religion of love, has interacted with Judaism, Islam and other world religions in ways in which there has been as much warfare as charity. Some of the results are seen in the tensions of the modern world, tensions which are proving very hard to resolve - not least because of a lack of awareness of the history behind the thinking which has brought the Church to where it is now. In the light of that lack, a new history of the Christian Church is badly needed. There is much to be said for restoring to the general reader, whetherChristian or not, a familiarity with the network of ideas about what the Church ' is' and what it should be ' doing' as a vessel of Christian life and thought. This series aims to be both fresh and traditional. It will be organised so that the boundary-dates between volumes fall in some unexpected places. It will attempt to look at its conventional subject matter from the critical perspective of the early twenty-first century, where the Church has a confusing myriad of faces. It ranges from Vatican strictures on the use of birth control and the indissolubility of marriage, and outspoken German academic theologians who challenge the Churches' authority, to the enthusiasm of black Baptist congregations in the USA joyously affirming a faith with few defining parameters. Behind all these variations is a rich history of thinking, effort and struggle. And within it, at the heart of matters, is the Church," The I.B.Tauris History of the Christian Church" seeks to discover that innermost self through the layers of its multiple manifestations over twenty centuries. Forthcoming titles in this series: "The Early Church" by Morwenna Ludlow, University of Oxford "The Early Middle Ages" by G. R. Evans, University of Cambridge "The Later Middle Ages" by Norman P Tanner, Gregorian University "Early Modern Christianity" by Patrick Provost-Smith, Harvard University "The Long Eighteenth Century" by David Hempton, Boston University "The Nineteenth Century" by Frances Knight, University of Wales, Lampeter "The Modern Age" by Jeremy Morris, University of Cambridge |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - History | Europe - Medieval |
| Series: I.B. Tauris History of the Christian Church |
| Physical Information: 1.04" H x 6.56" W x 9.19" (1.22 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The creation of a new history of the Church at the beginning of the third millennium is an ambitious but necessary project. Perhaps nowhere is it needed more than in re-describing the Church's development - its life and its thinking - in the period that followed the end of the 'early Church' in antiquity. The cultural, social and political dominance of Christendom in what we now call 'the West', from about 600-1300, made the Christian Church a shaper of the modern world in respects which go far beyond its religious influence. Writing with her customary authority, and with a magisterial grasp of the original sources, G. R. Evans brings this formative era vividly to life both for the student of religious history and general reader. She concentrates as much on the colourful human episodes of the time as on broader institutional and intellectual developments. The result is a compelling and thoroughly modern introduction to devotional and theological thought in the early Middle Ages as well as to ecclesiastical and pastoral life at large. |