The Excellent Empire: The Fall of Rome and the Triumph of the Church
Language: English
Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1987
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
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133pp including index Previus owner's name and date inside front and rear cover near top edge and undelining inpreface and first wo chapers, otherwise book is AS NEW Dust jacket has tear at bottom edge of rear cover of jacket.
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- Title
- The Excellent Empire: The Fall of Rome and the Triumph of the Church
- Author
- Pelikan, Jaroslav
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, New York
- Publication year
- 1987
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Cloth Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0062546368
- ISBN 13
- 9780062546364
- Illustrator
- Illustrated
- Edition
- First Edition
- Series
- Book 1 of 1: The Rauschenbusch lectures
- Seller catalogs
- History, Religion
Preface
Introduction: The fall of Rome as historical paradigm
The social triumph of barbarism & religion
History as divine apocalypse
The register of human follies, crimes & misfortunes
The founding of the Christian empire
The inevitable effect of immoderate greatness
The terrestrial glory of an excellent empire
The inestimable gifts of Roman civilization
Notes
Index of Names
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
First Choice Books
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