The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph & Diversity 200–1000

by Peter R.L. Brown

This book offers a vivid, compelling history of the first thousand years of Christianity. For the second edition, the book has been thoroughly rewritten and expanded. It includes two new chapters, as well as an extensive preface in which the author reflects on the scholarly traditions which have influenced his work and explains his current thinking about the book's themes.

New edition of popular account of the first 1000 years of Christianity.

Thoroughly rewritten, with extensive new preface of author's current thinking.

Includes new maps, substantial bibliography, and numerous chronological tables.

Genres: History, Religion, Christianity, Nonfiction, European History, Medieval, Church History

712 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

There is more than one author with this name.

Peter Robert Lamont Brown FBA is Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. His principal contributions to the discipline have been in the field of Late Antiquity. His work has concerned, in particular, the religious culture of the later Roman Empire and early medieval Europe, and the relation between religion and society.

[NB This is not the same Peter Brown (1945-2018) who translated many Latin and Greek texts and taught at Trinity College, Oxford.]