TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wood,I.N.
TI  - The transformation of the Roman West /Ian Wood
T2  - Past imperfect
SN  - 9781942401445
AV  - BR735 .T736 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Leeds
PB  - ARC Humanities Press
KW  - Church and state
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Church history
KW  - Middle Ages, 600-1500
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction. The end of the West Roman Empire : from decline and fall to transformation of the Roman world --; Gibbon's secondary causes : "the disorders of military despotism" and "the division of monarchy" --; Barbarism : "the invasion and settlements of the barbarians of Germany and Scythia" --; Religion and the transformation of the Roman world --; Religion : "the rise, establishment, and sects of Christianity" --; Religious reaction to the fall of Rome --; Doctrinal division --; The impact of Christianity : a quantitative approach --; Clerics, soldiers, bureaucrats --; Ecclesiastical endowment --; Beyond Gibbon and Rostovtzeff --; Appendix. Clerical ordinations; 2; b
N2  - The Church was at the heart of the political and social, as well as the religious changes that look place in the Roman West from the fourth to seventh centuries. In this concise and effective synthesis, Ian Wood considers some ways in which religion and the Church can be reintegrated into what has become a largely secular discourse, and he contends that the institutionalisation of the Church on a huge scale was a key factor in the transformation from an incipiently Christian Roman Empire to a world of thoroughly Christianised kingdoms
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