The Formation of Christendom - (Princeton Classics) by Judith Herrin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A groundbreaking history of how the Christian "West" emerged from the ancient Mediterranean world</b> <p/>In this acclaimed history of Early Christendom, Judith Herrin shows how--from the sack of Rome in 410 to the coronation of Charlemagne in 800--the Christian "West" grew out of an ancient Mediterranean world divided between the Roman west, the Byzantine east, and the Muslim south. Demonstrating that religion was the period's defining force, she reveals how the clash over graven images, banned by Islam, both provoked iconoclasm in Constantinople and generated a distinct western commitment to Christian pictorial narrative. In a new preface, Herrin discusses the book's origins, reception, and influence.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A brilliant overview of how the legacy of the Roman empire continued to shape the Mediterranean world.<b>---Rowan Williams, <i>New Humanist</i></b><br><br>A serious and powerful book. . . . A grand synthesis on a scale few people would dare now to attempt, ranging across diverse societies with considerable assurance.<b>---Christopher J. Wickham, <i>International History Review</i></b><br><br>Herrin's scholarship is unerring, her scope is wide and her style fluent. . . . The treatment of the so-called iconoclastic controversy, the dispute over the veneration of images in Christian worship which convulsed the Byzantine world in the eighth century, is sparkling. . . . Debate about where modern Europe came from . . . will be enriched by this civilized and accomplished book.-- "The Economist"<br><br>A learned, challenging, and gracefully written interpretation of the transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages.<b>---Robert L. Wilken, <i>Commonweal</i></b><br><br>An ambitious, learned, lucid, and instructive book.<b>---Alexander Murray, <i>Times Literary Supplement</i></b><br><br>Herrin follows some magnificent themes with the lucid dispassion of a good detective.<b>---Thomas D'Evelyn, <i>Christian Science Monitor</i></b><br><br>It is [the] binding together of distant past and immediate present which makes Judith Herrin's scholarship so exciting: she can convince the reader that the roots of Western distinctiveness really do lead all the way to forgotten episcopal meetings in small towns in Asia Minor in the fourth century.<b>---Michael Ignatieff, <i>The Observer</i></b><br><br>It will no longer be possible to hop from pagan antiquity to Carolingian Europe as if nothing had happened in between. Judith Herrin has laid her sheet of paper over the map of that 'dark' age and rubbed and rubbed until the rich web of connections and cracks has shown through.<b>---Marina Warner, <i>The Independent</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Judith Herrin</b> is professor emeritus in the Department of Classics at King's College London. Her books include <i>Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe</i>;<i> Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire</i>; <i>Margins and Metropolis: Authority across the Byzantine Empire</i>; and <i>Unrivalled Influence: Women and Empire in Byzantium</i> (all Princeton).
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