Through the Eye of a Needle
Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2012]
Format: Book
Description: xxx, 759 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Traces the intellectual and social history of wealth in the early Christian church, examining the financial rise of the church and its effects on the waning Roman empire as well as the church's own beliefs on poverty.
Subjects:
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Wealth -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History.
Rome -- History -- Empire, 284-476.
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Wealth -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History.
Rome -- History -- Empire, 284-476.
ISBN:
069115290X
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RELIGION Christian History Bro | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
RELIGION Christian History Bro | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 641-717) and index.