Resource · historical landmarks
History of Christianity
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Europe, the Mediterranean and the Near East
Selected landmark
Historical landmarkText from the Reader
How to read this timeline
Two threads cross. The round markers are dates in the history of Christianity chosen by Meletan; each note gives the primary source that allows them to be checked (ancient text, official act, chronicle). The diamond markers are the twenty-one texts of the Reader (in French), placed at the date of the work.
A symbolic date (1054, 1517) is not a one-day event: the note says so. The map shows only the places named by the landmark itself; a Reader text is not located on it.
Further reading (in French)
- A. Corbin (ed.), Histoire du christianisme, Paris, Seuil, 2007.
- P. Maraval and S. C. Mimouni, Le christianisme des origines à Constantin, Paris, PUF, 2006.
- P.-O. Léchot (ed.), Introduction à l’histoire de la théologie, Geneva, Labor et Fides, 2018.
- S. Scholl, Introduction à l’histoire du christianisme, University of Geneva, online course material, with bibliography.
- For the New Testament: A. Dettwiler and A.-C. Baudoin, Introduction au Nouveau Testament, University of Geneva, 2020; D. Marguerat (ed.), Introduction au Nouveau Testament, Geneva, Labor et Fides, 4th ed. 2008.
Base map: Natural Earth (public domain). The choice of landmarks and the wording of the notes are Meletan’s own; the works cited do not endorse them. The notes are translated from the French page.