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16 - Christendom's regional systems

from Part IV - Expanding religious systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

By
Miri Rubin
Edited by
Benjamin Z. Kedar  and
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Benjamin Z. Kedar
Affiliation:
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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Summary

This chapter explores Christianity's regional systems over a thousand years, during which it was the official religion of the Byzantine Empire and spread throughout Europe. It first considers some characteristics of Christian life and its implications for polities, communities, and individuals. The chapter then considers some movements including trade, crusading, mission, which encouraged links between the Christian regions. The chapter considers life within Christian polities, in Europe, Byzantium and Ethiopia, and Christian life in established communities after the advent of Islam. Christian communities also existed in regions far from the heartlands of the Abrahamic religions. The chapter concludes with an analysis of Christian regions over one thousand years with a consideration of those activities that brought them into contact with each other, and exemplifies their diversity by dwelling on the visual depictions of the Virgin Mary in various regions.
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The Cambridge World History , pp. 415 - 446
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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