Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2009-7-1 Pages: 476 Publisher:. Little Brown Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000. that ofWestern Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for futuregreatness Com pared to the glittering empires of Byzantium orIslam. the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appearedimpoverished. fearful and backward. But the anarchy of these yearsproved to be. not the portents of the end of the world. as manyChristians had dreaded. but rather the birthpangs of a radicallynew order. MILLENNIUM is a stunning panoramic account of the twocenturies on either side of the apocalyptic year 1000. This was theage of Canute. William the Conqueror and Pope Gregory VII. ofVikings. monks and serfs. of the earliest castles and the inventionof knighthood. and of the primal conflict between church and state.The story of how the distinctive culture...

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