Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years

by Melvyn Bragg

A unique box set containing an in-depth and evocative study telling the story of Christianity from its birth in the first century through to the present day. Powerful and dramatic, it is a story of a religion which has inspired both selfless devotion and bloody conflict, and formed the framework for our political, cultural, scientific and social history for two millennia.

Genres: History, Religion

384 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2002

About the author

Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, FRSL, FRTS (born 6 October 1939) is an English author, broadcaster and media personality who, aside from his many literary endeavours, is perhaps most recognised for his work on The South Bank Show.

Bragg is a prolific novelist and writer of non-fiction, and has written a number of television and film screenplays. Some of his early television work was in collaboration with Ken Russell, for whom he wrote the biographical dramas The Debussy Film (1965) and Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World (1967), as well as Russell's film about Tchaikovsky, The Music Lovers (1970). He is president of the National Academy of Writing. His 2008 novel, Remember Me is a largely autobiographical story.

He is also a Vice President of the Friends of the British Library, a charity set up to provide funding support to the British Library.

Reviews

[Cat.]

I learned some things in here that I wasn't aware of, since the church in the Middle Ages isn't my gig at all, and the photos and details of the book are great. It is EXTREMELY English-centric, or at least Western Church-centric, barely mentioning Asia and Oceania (if at all) but I still managed to be surprised about a few things in the middle of Europe that were mentioned. Pretty even-handed, although having finished reading the book, I'm pretty tired of hierarchical religion.