Subject: Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 (Keywords)

This text takes the reader on a geographical and intellectual journey across the evolving empires and kingdoms of the ancient world. Through evocations of individual rulers and holy men, Selina O'Grady shows how emperors sought to shape religion to their ends, and how religion shaped emperors and...

Peter, Matthew, Thomas, John - who were these men and what was their relationship to Jesus? Tom Bissell gives us rich and deeply informed answers to those ancient questions. 'Apostle' is a brilliant and exhaustive synthesis of travel writing, centuries of biblical history, and a deep lifelong rel...

This remarkable book examines the conversion of Europe to the Christain faith in the period following the collapse of the Roman Empire to approximately 1300 when the hegemony of the Holy Roman Empire was firmly established.

This companion volume to "A New Eusebius" and "Doctrine and Practice in the Early Church" documents the history of the Church from AD 337 to 461. This edition has been completely revised, updating the notes and bibliography and adding nearly 40 new documents.

Based around the gospels and letters of St Paul, and focusing on characters one and two generations on from the death of Christ, as well as Paul (Saul) himself, 'Damascus' nevertheless explores the themes that have always obsessed Tsiolkas as a writer: class, religion, masculinity, patriarchy, co...

A biography of Constantine - famous for being the first Christian emperor of Rome - which aims to reach past the public persona to the private man. Was he the last notable Roman emperor, or the first medieval monarch? Was he a saint or should he be seen as a murderer who killed his wife and others?

The life of the Empress Helena coincided with the recognition of Christianity as the religion of the Roman Empire. Helena made the historic pilgrimage to Palestine, found pieces of wood from the true cross, and built churches at Bethlehem and Olivet.