TY - BOOK AU - Pelikan,Jaroslav TI - The excellent empire: the fall of Rome and the triumph of the church SN - 0062546368 AV - DG312 .P38 1987 U1 - 937/.09 19 PY - 1987/// CY - San Francisco PB - Harper & Row KW - Gibbon, Edward, KW - Fathers of the church KW - Church history KW - Primitive and early church, approximately 30-600 KW - Rome KW - History KW - Empire, 284-476 KW - Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D KW - Historiography KW - Byzantine Empire N1 - Includes index; Bibliography: p. [117]-129 ER -