“…This sourcebook gathers into a single collection the writings that illuminate one of the most fundamental periods in the history of Christian Europe. Beginning from the Great Persecution of Diocletian and the conversion of Constantine the first Christian Roman emperor, the volume explores Christianity's rise as the dominant religion of the Later Roman empire and how the Church survived the decline and fall of Roman power in the west and converted the Germanic tribes who swept into the western empire. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “….) -- Australia/New Zealand -- Biography -- Individual and Collective Biographies -- Journals and Diaries -- Letters -- Oral History -- Birth Control -- l Abortion -- Fertility -- Infanticide -- Material Culture -- Reproductive Rights and Options -- Canada -- Economics (see also Work) -- Africa -- Asia -- Australia -- Europe -- Latin America -- Middle East/Near East -- North America -- Soviet Union -- Education Methods -- Students -- Teachers -- Ethnicity -- Asian -- European -- General Immigrants -- Jewish -- Latin American -- Europe -- Central Europ -- e Eastern Europe -- France -- Great Britain -- Northern Europe -- Southern Europe -- Family -- Childbirth -- Childcare -- Demographics -- Ethnicity -- Infant Mortality -- International -- Kinship -- Motherhood -- Feminism -- Biography -- General -- International Organizations -- Politics -- Religion -- Theory -- Friendship -- Health -- Health Care/Preventive Health Care -- Illness -- Maternity/Childbirth -- Medical Issues -- Psychology -- Latin America -- Law/Crime -- Courts, Trials, and Prisons -- Divorce, Family, and Marriage -- Female Criminality -- Lawyers -- Reproductive Rights and Illegitimacy -- Work and Protective Legislation -- Lifestages and Lifestyles (except married) -- Life Courses -- Old Age -- Never-Married Women -- Widowhood -- Youth -- Marriage/Divorce -- Courtship -- Demographics -- Divorce -- Ethnicity -- International -- Polygamy -- Material and Popular Culture -- Architecture/City Planning/Neighborhoods -- Books/Literary Images/Literature -- Crafts/Quilts/Embroidery Fashion/Textiles/Beauty -- Culture -- Food -- Photographs/Paintings/Visual Images/Movies Popular Culture/Mass Media/Advertising -- Science and Technology -- Middle East/Near East -- Military/War -- Home Front -- Jobs -- Peace -- Activism -- War Service -- Politics -- First Ladies -- Government Policy -- Political Participation -- International Relations -- Monarchies -- Office Holders Parties -- Women's Rights -- Pornography -- Professions -- Professional Career Choices -- White Collar Work -- Prostitution -- Religion -- Catholocism Missions and Missionaries -- Protestantism -- Religious Issues and Witchcraft -- Sexuality Ideology -- Lesbianism (see also Lifestages and Lifestyles) -- Practices -- Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- Virginity/Celibacy -- Social Reform/Community -- Organizing -- Family Planning and Aid To Children -- Health Reform -- Industrial Reform -- Moral Reform -- Social Movements/General Temperance -- Women's Clubs -- Women's Rights Movements -- Soviet Union -- Sports -- Suffrage -- Anti-Suffrage -- International Suffrage -- United States -- National -- East -- Midwest -- South -- West -- Construction/Deconstruction/Reconstruction -- Women's History/Feminist History -- Women's History Methodology and Other Disciplines -- Cross-Cultural Theory and Women's History -- Biography Women's History and Labor -- Historiography and Sources -- U.S. …”

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“…The question of marriage validity is eternal--both with respect to its relation to an historical past as well as individual present day unions. the readership is vast and this book will be included in syllabi in seminaries, Catholic universities and other faculties of sociology, religion and law. It will be a reference guide in tribunals and studied in the course of legislative reform, but it will also be accessible to both scholars and laypersons. the question of consensual incapacity is asked tens of thousands of times each year anew and there is not yet a definitive study that provides answers and guidance for further development of this notion. …”

“…It was on the borderlands that the expanding great empires--German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and Ottoman--overlapped, clashed, and disintegrated. …”

“…His life-long great admiration for Rembrandt found expession in a number of publications. 17th century art history, English medieval sculpture and his last great interest, seals, completed his scholarly output. …”

“…His inquiry is carried out with great inventiveness and care, and his book is highly recommended to those interested in religion, philosophy, and the contribution of logical analysis." - D. …”