Through the eye of a needle : wealth, the fall of Rome, and the making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD
Brown, Peter, 1935-2012
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This volume is an intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire. Brown examines the rise of the church through the lens of money and the challenges it posed to an institution that espoused the virtue of poverty and called avarice the root of all evil.
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Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2012.
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806 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 23 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780691152905 (hbk)
Dewey class:
270.2
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English
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BRN:
23952