000			01647nam a2200205 a 4500
008			160203s2010 xxu eng d
020			_a0393059758 (hardcover)
020			_a9780393059755 (hardcover)
082			_a909.07 Bauer 30896 1st 2010 History
100	1		_aBauer, Susan Wise. _919780
245	1	4	_aThe History of the Medieval World :From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aUSA : _bW. W. Norton & Company, _c2010.
300			_a768 p. ;
520			_aA masterful narrative of the Middle Ages, when religion became a weapon for kings all over the world. 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. 4 illustrations; 46
650			_aMiddle Ages _919781
650			_aCivilization, Medieval _919782
650			_aHistory _919783
942			_cBK
999			_c7312 _d7311