Christendom: the triumph of a religion, AD 300-1300

Introduction

Part one: The romanization of Christianity. "By this conquer..."

Conversion in a Christian empire

The altar of victory

Part two: The fall of Roman Christianity. Nicaea and the fall of the West

Islam and the fall of the East

"Not angels": conversion in north-western Europe

Latin Christianity restructured

Culture and society in the post-Roman West

Part three: Christian empire renewed. Christian expansion in a second age of empire

Charlemagne's city of God

Popes and emperors

"God wills it"

The economy of salvation

Christendom and coercion