About the book: year / "The fifth century is undoubtedly one of the most important eras of Christian civilization. This is the critical epoch when the church, fully armed with its fully established organization, enters the Middle Ages, being transmitted from the ancient Greco-Latin world to the barbarians and absorbing Greco-Latin elements. At the same time, this is the century when the difference between Hellenic, Eastern Christianity and Latin, Western Christianity is already very sharply and clearly outlined. The state order at that time was shaken and shaken at its very foundation; the church alone represents social unity, holding together and connecting the empire, which is falling apart in the process of self-decomposition…»