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Empire To Commonwealth: Consequences Of Monotheism In Late Antiquity,New Judith A. Even As It Produces TheIn This Bold Approach To Late Antiquity, Garth Fowden Shows How, From The Secondcentury Peak Of Rome'S Prosperity To The Ninthcentury Onset Of The Islamic Empire'S Decline, Powerful Beliefs In One God Were Used To Justify And Strengthen 'World Empires.' But Tensions Between Orthodoxy And Heresy That Were Inherent In Monotheism Broke The Unitary Empires Of Byzantium And Baghdad Into The Looser, More Pluralistic Commonwealths Of Eastern Christendom And