The millennial kingdom (300-1300) Essay on the Christian culture of the West

The monograph is an outline of the Christian culture of the West from the era of the Church Fathers to its apogee at the turn of the XIII-XIV centuries. Without pretending to the completeness of the description and analysis of all aspects of the spiritual life of the period under consideration, the author reveals those in which thinkers and artists left the most noticeable mark. Along with universally recognized masterpieces, the reader will find here the monuments are little -known, recently open and almost not studied. Many works of art are illustrated by copyright photographs, medieval texts are given in copyright translations from Latin and other ancient languages ​​and are often accompanied by polemic notes about the arts, evaluations and methodological positions existing in modern history and mediastism