A major new reinterpretation of Christendom, by one of our foremost
medieval historiansIn the fourth century AD, a new faith exploded
out of Palestine. Overwhelming the paganism of Rome, and converting
the Emperor Constantine in the process, it resoundingly defeated a
host of other rivals. Almost a thousand years later, all of Europe
was controlled by Christian rulers, and the religion, ingrained
within culture and society, exercised a monolithic hold over its
population.But, as Peter Heather shows in this compelling new
history, there was nothing inevitable about Christendom's rise to
Europe-wide dominance. In exploring how the Christian religion
became such a defining feature of the European landscape, and how a
small sect of isolated and intensely committed congregations was
transformed into a mass movement centrally directed from Rome,
Peter Heather shows how Christendom constantly battled against both
so-called 'heresies' and other forms of belief. From the crisis
that followed the collapse of the Roman empire, which left the
religion teetering on the edge of extinction, to the astonishing
revolution of the eleventh century and beyond in which the Papacy
emerged as the head of a vast international corporation, Heather
traces Christendom's chameleon-like capacity for self-reinvention
and astounding willingness to mobilize well-directed
force.Christendom's achievement was not, or not only, to define
official Christianity, but - from its scholars and its lawyers, to
its provincial officials and missionaries in far-flung corners of
the continent - to transform it into an institution that wielded
effective religious authority across nearly all of the disparate
peoples of medieval Europe. This is its extraordinary story.
V januári 1965 Gabriel García Márquez cestoval s rodinou na
dovolenku do Acapulca, keď odrazu dostal nápad. Začul vravu
mestečka Macondo. Už vedel, ako napíše svoj nový román. Vrátil sa
domov, zatvoril sa do pracovne, a keď z nej po osemnástich
mesiacoch vyšiel, v ruke držal 1 300 strán rukopisu a bol šťastný.
Román Sto rokov samoty prvý raz vyšiel v roku 1967, Márquez mal
vtedy 39 rokov a svet si navždy zapamätal jeho meno. Dnes je román
považovaný za jedno z najvýznamnejších diel latinskoamerickej a
svetovej literatúry. Je komponovaný z množstva reálnych aj
fantazijných epizód a rozpráva o pôvabných i krutých príhodách
šiestich generácií rodiny Buendíovcov z fiktívneho mestečka
Macondo.
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