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The book puts the current interest in historical Jesus research into a proper historical context, highlighting Gnosticism’s lasting influence on early Christianity and making the provocative claim that nearly all Christian Churches are in some way descended from Roman Christianity. Breaking with the accepted wisdom of Christianity’s origins, the revised history it puts forward challenges the assumptions of Church and secular historians, biblical critics and general readers alike, with profound repercussions for scholarship, belief and practice. .
Religion. --- Bible --- Ethnology. --- Europe --- Religious Studies. --- Biblical Studies. --- Cultural Anthropology. --- History of Ancient Europe. --- Theology. --- History—To 476. --- Christianity. --- Religionsgeschichtliche Schule. --- Church history. --- Christianity --- Ecclesiastical history --- History, Church --- History, Ecclesiastical --- History of religions school --- History --- Religions --- Church history --- Origin --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Bible-Theology. --- Europe-History-To 476. --- Bible—Theology. --- Europe—History—To 476.
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This book provides an interpretive narrative of the wars fought by Bulgaria against the Byzantine Empire for dominant control of the Balkan Peninsula during the early medieval era. Over a span of two centuries, from the early ninth through the early eleventh, and under the leadership of the Bulgarian rulers Krum, Simeon I, and Samuil, those conflicts evolved from simple confrontations for territorial possession into a life-or-death struggle for imperial precedence within the Orthodox world then emerging in Eastern Europe—a struggle that the Bulgarians ultimately lost. The primary focus is on Bulgaria, rather than Byzantium, and an effort is made to provide a historically reliable chronology of the assorted campaigns. The various belligerents’ military organizations, defensive technologies, armaments, and tactics are surveyed in an introduction to the main narrative. A prelude chapter sets the stage for the hegemonic conflict, which was divided into three distinct phases by interludes of relative peace between the contending parties, during which Bulgaria’s domestic, foreign, and cultural developments shaped the nature and conduct of the fighting in each successive phase.
Byzantine Empire --- History, Military. --- Europe-History-476-1492. --- Military history. --- Imperialism. --- History, Ancient. --- Europe-History-To 476. --- History of Medieval Europe. --- History of Military. --- Imperialism and Colonialism. --- Ancient History. --- History of Ancient Europe. --- Ancient history --- Ancient world history --- World history --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Military historiography --- Military history --- Wars --- Historiography --- History --- Naval history --- Europe—History—476-1492. --- Europe—History—To 476.
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