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Judith Herrin.
The Formation of Christendom.
Published London: Fontana Press, 1989 (hardback was Blackwell, 1987).
ISBN 0006861822;
ISBN-13 9780006861829.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in Princeton.
Size: 152x234x25mm.
Page count: text x,551pp; plates 16pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some scuffs and marks on the covers, a bit of wear on the edges with the corners starting to fray; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £12.00
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Weight without packaging: 728g.

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Contents:
1. Late Antiquity: Romans & non‑Romans; Christian influence in late-Antique culture; Churches in the 6th c.&- the Council of 553;
2. From Christian schism to division: achievement of Gregory the Great; Byzantium confronted by Islam; Visigothic alternative; Roots of Christian disunity 649-92;
3. Three heirs of Rome:Eastern iconoclasm — Islamic & Byzantine; Divergent paths; Carolingian innovation; 2 emperors of Christendom; Conclusion; Afterword — Reichenau.

Illustrations: 16 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: 3

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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