The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity

by Robert L. Wilken

Book Overview

An authoritative and poignant account of the first millennium of Christian history

How did a community that was largely invisible in the first two centuries of its existence go on to remake the civilizations it inhabited, culturally, politically, and intellectually? Beginning with the life of Jesus, Robert Louis Wilken narrates the dramatic spread and development of Christianity over the first thousand years of its history. Moving...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300198388
• ISBN13: 9780300198386
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"