Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom Public Affairs & Administration After meeting resistance from the

After meeting resistance from the local sheriff

000 years of art history

sparely told and deceptively simple’ Carolyne Larrington

a country on the edge of modernity

Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom Public Affairs & Administration After meeting resistance from theOf 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.