Author |
: Stewart J. Brown |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 436 |
Release |
: 2018-06-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1108473792 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781108473798 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Church and Empire by : Stewart J. Brown
Download or read book The Church and Empire written by Stewart J. Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Church and Empire', the theme of Studies in Church History, 54, reflects the reality that from its beginnings, the Christian Church has had close, often symbiotic, relationships with empires and imperial power. Initially the Church engaged with the Roman Empire, subsequently in Europe with the Carolingian, Anglo-Norman, Genoese, Venetian and Holy Roman Empires, and later - through the Church's global expansion with European empires in the Americas, Africa and Asia - the Spanish, Dutch, French and British empires, and the imperial structures it encountered there. Bringing together the work of twenty-four historians, this volume explores the relations of churches and empires, and Christian conceptions of empire, in the ancient, medieval, early modern and modern periods, as well as the role of empire in the global expansion of Christianity.