This grandiose work of one of the leading British church historians, Oxford University professor Diarmaid McCulloch - the whole history of Christianity, told anew for people living today. The ancient origins of Christian civilization, persecution, schisms, religious wars, intrigues, tragedies, destinies, facts. Vivid stories of geniuses and madmen, freethinkers and saints, sovereigns and ordinary people, whose names are inscribed in a thousand-year history.