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Author: Dr David M. Gwynn
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Edition: annotated edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.618kg
ISBN: 9781441122551
ISBN 10: 1441122559
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 20 November 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Language: English
Reviews
David Gwynn has produced an unusual, readable, and highly effective source-book. He sets the key testimonies to the spread and transformation of Christianity within a continuous narrative, that provides both essential context and clear guidance as to how to read the evidence. It is a book that can be read with pleasure from cover to cover, or serve as a source-book on any specific aspect of the early Church. -- Bryan Ward-Perkins, Fellow and Tutor in History, University of Oxford, UK and author of The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization (2005) Offering a critically framed selection of Late Roman Christian texts, this volume offers a current as well as comprehensive overview of the issues, authors, and problems of Christianization from the third to seventh centuries. David M. Gwynn has helpfully distilled much recent scholarship into a lively narrative of this transitional era, presenting traditional texts and authors in an accessible framework as well as presenting a broad bibliography for further reading. -- Rebecca Lyman, Samuel Garrett Professor of Church History emerita, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, California, USA
David Gwynn has produced an unusual, readable, and highly effective source-book. He sets the key testimonies to the spread and transformation of Christianity within a continuous narrative, that provides both essential context and clear guidance as to how to read the evidence. It is a book that can be read with pleasure from cover to cover, or serve as a source-book on any specific aspect of the early Church. -- Bryan Ward-Perkins, Fellow and Tutor in History, University of Oxford, UK and author of The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization (2005)
An unusual, readable, and highly effective sourcebook. David M. Gwynn sets the key testimonies within a continuous narrative that provides both essential context and clear guidance as to how to read the evidence. It is a book that can be read with pleasure from cover to cover or serve as a sourcebook on any specific aspect of the early Church. -- Bryan Ward-Perkins, Fellow and Tutor in History, University of Oxford, UK and author of The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization (2005) Offering a critically framed selection of Late Roman Christian texts, this volume offers a current as well as comprehensive overview of the issues, authors, and problems of Christianization from the third to seventh centuries. David M. Gwynn has helpfully distilled much recent scholarship into a lively narrative of this transitional era, presenting traditional texts and authors in an accessible framework as well as presenting a broad bibliography for further reading. -- Rebecca Lyman, Samuel Garrett Professor of Church History emerita, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, California, USA [Christianity in the Later Roman Empire] might best be described as a comprehensive introductory overview of this complex and confusing subject. As such, it is an excellent way in; the serious student will want to go deeper. [...] Anyone studying this period for the first time will find this a most useful book. -- Colin McDonald Classics for All Reviews
Author Information
David M. Gwynn is Reader in Ancient and Late Antique History at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
