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This encyclopaedic work of reference covers an era in church history in which pagan ideas still existed and in which the symbiosis between Empire and Church was so close as to make them seem almost one, with the Emperor in the East often playing a dominant role in religious matters, while in the West the authority of the emperors had faded, allowing the papacy to assume increasing secular authority. The domination of the East ' reflected in the triumph of Greek over Latin as the language of administration ' meant that Rome itself and the Western provinces were seen as rather provincial. The...

An unrivalled source of information about Early Christianity and late antiquity, from the earliest days of the Church, with particular coverage of the patristic period, to the period of John Damascene in the East and Bede in the West. Compiled by an internationally recognised team of 100 European and American scholars, the text is supplemented by a section of 44 coloured maps and over 300 pictures, many in colour. Read the Foreword to the English Translation here See the List of Contributors here A companion to this work, the Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, edited by AndrC Vauchez, is also...