260-360 - The conversion of Christianity, 300-363 - The new people : monasticism and the expansion of Christianity, 300-400 - pt. 200-300 - The last Hellenes : philosophy and paganism, c. 170-300 - The crisis of the towns : the rise of Christianity, c. The new mood : directions of religious thought, c. The boundaries of the classical world : c AD 200 - The new rulers : 240-350 - A world restored : Roman society in the fourth century - II. Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-213) and index became divided into the three mutually estranged societies of the Middle Ages: Catholic Western Europe, Byzantium, and Islam The result is a lucid answer to a crucial question in world history: how the exceptionally homogeneous Mediterranean world of c. By 476 the Roman empire had vanished from western Europe by 665 the Persian empire had vanished from the Near East, Brown examines these changes and men's reactions to them, but his account shows that the period was also one of outstanding new beginnings and defines the far-reaching impact both of Christianity on Europe and of Islam on the Near East. 750 A.D., came to differ from "Classical civilization." These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deeply rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all time. This study in social and cultural change explains how and why the Late Antique world, between c.
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