The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade - Hardcover

Buch 2 von 3: The History of the World Series

Bauer, Susan Wise

 
9780393059755: The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0393059758 ISBN 13: 9780393059755
Verlag: W W NORTON & CO, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

From the schism between Rome and Constantinople to the rise of the T’ang Dynasty, from the birth of Muhammad to the crowning of Charlemagne, this erudite book tells the fascinating, often violent story of kings, generals, and the peoples they ruled.In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the fourth and the twelfth centuries, rulers had to find new justification for their power, and they turned to divine truth or grace to justify political and military action. Right thus replaces might as the engine of empire.Not just Christianity and Islam but the religions of the Persians and the Germans, and even Buddhism, are pressed into the service of the state. This phenomenon—stretching from the Americas all the way to Japan—changes religion, but it also changes the state.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Susan Wise Bauer is a writer, educator, and historian. Her previous books include the Writing With Ease, Writing With Skill, and Story of the World series from Well-Trained Mind Press, as well as The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had, Rethinking School, The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory, and the History of the World series, all from W. W. Norton. She has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William & Mary in Virginia, as well as an M.A. in seventeenth-century literature and a Master of Divinity in Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Literature. For fifteen years, she taught literature and composition at the College of William and Mary.

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Verlag
W W NORTON & CO
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393059758
ISBN 13 
9780393059755
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
746
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