The Cambridge Ancient History

Both applied to it the methods of historical analysis proper to any secular historian and, long honed by classical history, Brown, moreover, pioneered the application to it of the sorts of sociological, psychological and anthropological modes of analysis that are reshaping, often radically, much contemporary historiography. Again, in a bow in the direction of the burgeoning area of social history, part III includes a section on the family and another on the family and friendship, areas of life dramatically affected by the growth of Christianity. [...]groups traditionally dismissed as 'heretical', such as those who resisted the Council of Chalcedon's statement of faith, are sometimes described as 'Monophysites' (with the welcome quotation marks).