LEADER 03493nam 22005532 450 001 9910493166503321 005 20211021205231.0 010 $a1-64189-908-5 010 $a1-942401-44-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781942401445 035 $a(CKB)4100000005963209 035 $a(OCoLC)1049848579 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse70117 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5718286 035 $a(DE-B1597)528902 035 $a(OCoLC)1099259654 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781942401445 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781942401445 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000005963209 100 $a20201011d2018|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe transformation of the Roman West /$fIan Wood$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aLeeds :$cARC Humanities Press,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 160 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aPast imperfect 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2021). 311 0 $a1-942401-43-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 139-160). 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface and Acknowledgements --$tIntroduction. The End of the West Roman Empire: From Decline and Fall to Transformation of the Roman World --$tChapter 1. Gibbon's Secondary Causes: "The Disorders of Military Despotism" and "the Division of Monarchy" --$tChapter 2. Barbarism: "The Invasion and Settlements of the Barbarians of Germany and Scythia" --$tChapter 3. Religion and the Transformation of the Roman World --$tChapter 4. Religion: "The Rise, Establishment, and Sects of Christianity" --$tChapter 5. Religious Reaction to the Fall of Rome --$tChapter 6. Doctrinal Division --$tChapter 7. The Impact of Christianity: A Quantitative Approach --$tChapter 8. Clerics, Soldiers, Bureaucrats --$tChapter 9. Ecclesiastical Endowment --$tChapter 10. Beyond Gibbon and Rostovtzeff --$tAppendix. Clerical Ordinations --$tFurther Reading --$tBibliography 330 $aThe history of the Late Roman Empire in the West has been divided into two parallel worlds, analysed either as a political and economic transformation or as a religious and cultural one. But how do these relate one to another? In this concise and effective synthesis, Ian Wood considers some ways in which religion and the Church can be reintegrated into what has become a largely secular discourse. The Church was at the heart of the changes that look place at the end of the Western Empire, not only regarding religion, but indeed every aspect of politics and society. Wood contends that the institutionalisation of the Church on a huge scale was a key factor in the transformation which began in the early fourth century with an incipiently Christian Roman Empire and ended three hundred years later in a world of thoroughly Christianised kingdoms. 410 0$aPast imperfect (ARC Humanities Press) 606 $aChurch and state$zEurope$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aChurch history$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 607 $aRome$xHistory$yEmpire, 284-476 607 $aEurope$xHistory$y392-814 615 0$aChurch and state$xHistory 615 0$aChurch history 676 $a274/.02 700 $aWood$b I. N$g(Ian N.),$f1950-$0629495 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910493166503321 996 $aThe transformation of the Roman West$92486511 997 $aUNINA