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Cargando... Milenio : el fin del mundo y el origen del cristianismo (2008)por Tom Holland
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" In "The Forge of Christendom," Tom Holland (whose last book, "Rubicon," traced the end of the Roman Republic) provides an entertaining account of the fraught last years of the Dark Ages, when a confused and suffering Europe contemplated the End of Days and yet, much to its surprise, woke up on New Year's Day 1000 to a brighter future than it could have imagined."
At the approach of the first millennium, the Christians of Europe did not seem likely candidates for future greatness. Weak, fractured, and hemmed in by hostile nations, they saw no future beyond the widely anticipated Second Coming of Christ. But when the world did not end, the peoples of Western Europe suddenly found themselves with no choice but to begin the heroic task of building a Jerusalem on earth. In The Forge of Christendom, Tom Holland masterfully describes this remarkable new age, a time of caliphs and Viking sea kings, the spread of castles and the invention of knighthood. It was one of the most significant departure points in history: the emergence of Western Europe as a distinctive and expansionist power. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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