TY - BOOK ID - 68802179 TI - Millennium : the end of the world and the forging of Christendom. PY - 2008 SN - 0349119724 9780349119724 PB - London Abacus DB - UniCat KW - Civilisation médiévale. KW - Civilization, Medieval. KW - 476-1492. KW - Europe KW - Europe. KW - Histoire KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:68802179 AB - Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared impoverished, fearful and backward. But the anarchy of these years proved to be, not the portents of the end of the world, as many Christians had dreaded, but rather the birthpangs of a radically new order. ER -