Bibliography
Supplemental Reading
Arbeth, J. The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348–1350: A Brief
History with Documents. Bedford Series in History and Culture. New
York: MacMillan, 2005. Especially valuable in this study is the collection
of documents that illustrate the devastating effects of the plague in the
14 th century.Ayres, L. Nicaea and Its Legacy: An Approach to Fourth-Century Trinitarian
Theology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. A study of the
controversies generated by the Arian heresy, with particular attention to the
ways in which the interpretation of Scripture formed the orthodox position.Baldovin, J. F., S.J. The Urban Character of Christian Worship: The Origin,
Development and Meaning of Stational Liturgy. Orientalia Christiana
Analecta 228. Rome: Pontifical Institute of Oriental Studies, 1987. A study
of the expansion of Christian worship following its establishment as the
imperial religion.Barber, C. Figure and Likeness: On the Limits of Representation in Byzantine
Iconoclasm. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002. A thorough
study of the issues posed by the veneration of images in Orthodox piety.Barclay, J. M. G. Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora: From
Alexander to Trajan (323 BCE–117 CE). Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1996.
Authoritative survey of the life of Jews outside Palestine and exposed to
Hellenistic culture.Bass, D. B. A People’s History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story.
San Francisco: Harper One, 2009. An attempt to tell the story from the
perspective of ordinary Christians rather than the elite authors.Bihlmeyer, K. Church History. Revised by H. Tuechle and translated by V.
E. Mills. 3 vols. Westminster, MD: Newman Press, 1968. A three-volume,
deeply learned German history of the church, with the first two volumes
dealing with the centuries we consider in this course.