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Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity

Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity

Fowden, Garth

Paperback

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryReligion General Greek History

ISBN10: 0691015457
ISBN13: 9780691015453
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Dec 19 1994
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

In this bold approach to late antiquity, Garth Fowden shows how, from the second-century peak of Rome's prosperity to the ninth-century onset of the Islamic Empire's decline, powerful beliefs in One God were used to justify and strengthen world empires. But tensions between orthodoxy and heresy that were inherent in monotheism broke the unitary empires of Byzantium and Baghdad into the looser, more pluralistic commonwealths of Eastern Christendom and Islam. With rare breadth of vision, Fowden traces this transition from empire to commonwealth, and in the process exposes the sources of major cultural contours that still play a determining role in Europe and southwest Asia.

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