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Bust of Charlemagne in the Aachen cathedral treasury. Aachen, Germany ( Wikimedia Commons ) In ch. 35, Wilken treats Charlemagne, picking up...

 In ch. 34, Wilken turns toward Spain. "The first mention of Christians in Spain appears in a writing of Tertullian of Carthage at the...

Wilken 's ch. 33 turns our attention to the Christians in Egypt and North Africa in the early days of Muslim rule.  After the fall of Sy...

Wilken 's ch. 32 is on early Arabic-speaking Christians in the Middle East. Near the end of the chapter, Wilken offers this evaluation. ...

Wilken 's ch. 31 covers "Images and the Making of Byzantium." It's mostly on the iconoclasm controversies in the eighth an...

Wilken 's ch. 30 is on Islam. Most of the chapter is just a summary of Muhammad's life and an introduction to Islam in the early yea...

Wilken 's ch. 29 is covers the city of Jerusalem in the first half of the seventh century, and christological controversies in that peri...

Wilken 's ch. 28 is called "Latin Christianity Spreads North." Here he covers Ireland, England, Germany, and some other spots....

Wlken 's ch. 27 is on Latin Christianity in the sixth and early-seventh centuries. He discusses a series of major characters.  Ulfilas (...

Sixth-century Mosaic of Justinian I in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna ( Wikimedia Commons ) Continuing from yesterday ,  Wilken 's ...

I've been reading Robert Louis Wilken, The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity  (Yale, 2012), and today I read ch. 25...