03493nam 22005532 450 991049316650332120211021205231.01-64189-908-51-942401-44-210.1515/9781942401445(CKB)4100000005963209(OCoLC)1049848579(MdBmJHUP)muse70117(MiAaPQ)EBC5718286(DE-B1597)528902(OCoLC)1099259654(DE-B1597)9781942401445(UkCbUP)CR9781942401445(EXLCZ)99410000000596320920201011d2018|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe transformation of the Roman West /Ian Wood[electronic resource]Leeds :ARC Humanities Press,2018.1 online resource (x, 160 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Past imperfectTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2021).1-942401-43-4 Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-160).Front matter --Contents --Preface and Acknowledgements --Introduction. The End of the West Roman Empire: From Decline and Fall to Transformation of the Roman World --Chapter 1. Gibbon's Secondary Causes: "The Disorders of Military Despotism" and "the Division of Monarchy" --Chapter 2. Barbarism: "The Invasion and Settlements of the Barbarians of Germany and Scythia" --Chapter 3. Religion and the Transformation of the Roman World --Chapter 4. Religion: "The Rise, Establishment, and Sects of Christianity" --Chapter 5. Religious Reaction to the Fall of Rome --Chapter 6. Doctrinal Division --Chapter 7. The Impact of Christianity: A Quantitative Approach --Chapter 8. Clerics, Soldiers, Bureaucrats --Chapter 9. Ecclesiastical Endowment --Chapter 10. Beyond Gibbon and Rostovtzeff --Appendix. Clerical Ordinations --Further Reading --BibliographyThe history of the Late Roman Empire in the West has been divided into two parallel worlds, analysed either as a political and economic transformation or as a religious and cultural one. But how do these relate one to another? In this concise and effective synthesis, Ian Wood considers some ways in which religion and the Church can be reintegrated into what has become a largely secular discourse. The Church was at the heart of the changes that look place at the end of the Western Empire, not only regarding religion, but indeed every aspect of politics and society. Wood contends that the institutionalisation of the Church on a huge scale was a key factor in the transformation which began in the early fourth century with an incipiently Christian Roman Empire and ended three hundred years later in a world of thoroughly Christianised kingdoms.Past imperfect (ARC Humanities Press)Church and stateEuropeHistoryTo 1500Church historyMiddle Ages, 600-1500RomeHistoryEmpire, 284-476EuropeHistory392-814Church and stateHistoryChurch history274/.02Wood I. N(Ian N.),1950-629495UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910493166503321The transformation of the Roman West2486511UNINA