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Barbarian Conversion Hardcover - 1998

by Richard A. Fletcher; R. a. Fletcher


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The conversion of the pagan world that began in the obscurity of the Dark Ages was in no way inevitable. England did not embrace Christianity until 627, and while confessing communities existed from Greenland to China by the millennium, the last European conversion occurred late in the Middle Ages, in 1386. How did it all happen--and why? In a work of splid scholarship that often reads like a detective story and that owes as much to keen intuition as to the mastery of difficult sources, Richard Fletcher lays out the story of the Christianization of Europe. It is a very large story, for conversion was not merely a matter of religious belief. Christianity brought with it enormous cultural baggage. With it came Latin literacy--books; Roman notions of law, property, and government--even the concept of town life, and Mediterranean customs, including new tastes in food, drink, and dress. Whether from faith or by force, conversion had an immense impact that is with us even today, and it is Richard Fletcher's achievement to make that impact felt and understood.

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  • Title Barbarian Conversion
  • Author Richard A. Fletcher; R. a. Fletcher
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First American E
  • Pages 576
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Henry Holt & Company, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1998
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780805027631 / 0805027637
  • Weight 2.07 lbs (0.94 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.56 x 6.53 x 1.77 in (24.28 x 16.59 x 4.50 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97050170
  • Dewey Decimal Code 274.02

About the author

"It is a wholly deplorable state of affairs when specialists in any discipline talk only to each other," writes Richard Fletcher. And, indeed, he has brought to his new work the same uncommon narrative flair and respect for sources found in Moorish Spain and The Search for El Cid, winner of both the Wolfson Prize and the Los Angeles Times History Prize.
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