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Article: The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity: A Sociohistorical Approach.
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- December 22, 1995
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The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity presents a series of related theses concerning the social and cultural evolution of Christianity during its first millennium. The most striking thesis is that contrary to the argument in several generations of Western Civilization texts, Latin Christiandom did not assimilate the German tribes, rather the German tribes succeeded in having their own cultural values accepted as those of the Latin Church. This thesis is supported not so much with new empirical findings or revised narrative analysis, but by a carefully constructed essay built upon broad reading in ancient and medieval European history, sociology and contemporary ...