The Forge of Christendom

A grand history of the rise of Western Europe following the collapse of the Roman Empire, from the acclaimed author of Rubicon and co-host of the hit podcast The Rest Is History “An entertaining account of the fraught last years of the Dark Ages.”— The Wall Street Journal “An enjoyable and exuberantly argued book . . . Holland combines sound scholarly credentials with a gift for storytelling on a magisterial scale.” —The Economist At the approach of the first millennium, the Christians of Europe