The Rise of Christianity

Gone Medieval

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🗓️ 19 November 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In the fourth century AD, the Christian faith exploded out of Palestine, overwhelming the paganism of Rome, converting the Emperor Constantine in the process. Almost a thousand years later, all of Europe was controlled by Christian rulers, and the religion was deeply ingrained within culture and society.

In this edition of Gone Medieval, Matt Lewis talks to Professor Peter Heather, author of Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, about how Christianity rose to wield authority across nearly all of the disparate peoples of medieval Europe.

The Senior Producer on this episode was Elena Guthrie. It was edited and produced by Rob Weinberg.

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1:33.4	Welcome to this episode of Gone Medieval, I'm Matt Lewis. I'm delighted to be speaking today
1:38.1	with Peter Heather who is chair of medieval history at King's College London and his latest book
1:43.9	entitled Christendom looks at how a fringe religious cult in the Roman Empire came to dominate
1:50.6	Europe and European outlooks in the medieval period. Thank you very much for joining us Peter.
1:55.6	It's my pleasure thank you for having me. How critical or problematic at its fall
2:00.9	was early Christianity's integration with Roman institutions and structures? Did it help to build
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