Noble, Thomas F. X. and Julia M. H. Smith, with R. A. Baranowski, eds.
<i>The Cambridge History of Christianity</i>, Volume 3: <i>Early Medieval Christianities, c. 600-c. 1100</i>. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2008. Pp. xxix, 846. GBP 105.00, $175.00. ISBN:9780521817752.
Reviewed by Raymond Van Dam University of Michigan
The <i>Cambridge Histories</i> are one of the crown jewels of the many
great academic resources published by Cambridge University Press. Now
that universities can purchase on-line subscriptions to the
<i>Histories</i> for their faculty and students, it has become much
easier to sample the riches available both within and outside our own
specialized fields. We scholars in ancient and medieval studies have
of course focused on volumes in <i>The Ancient History</i> and <i>The
New Medieval History</i>, with perhaps occasional glances at the
series on religions. Judaism and Islam have already received their
own <i>Histories</i>. But for Christianity CUP has so far published
only <i>The History of the Bible</i> and <i>The History of Early
Christian Literature</i>.
<i>The Cambridge History of Christianity</i> is a new series, with
volumes 1 and 2 published in 2006 and 2007 respectively. This third
volume now covers the early medieval period from 600 to 1100, from
pope Gregory the Great, whose mission to England "has conventionally
been regarded as a starting point in the history of western
Christianity" (13), to pope Gregory VII, whom the German king Henry IV
ridiculed as "no pope but false monk" (625).
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