History Matters: Book Club With Beer

Join us over food and drinks to discuss, “Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300”.

Description of Book:
In the fourth century AD, a new faith grew out of Palestine, overwhelming the paganism of Rome and resoundingly defeating a host of other rival belief systems. Almost a thousand years later, all of Europe was controlled by Christian rulers, and the religion, ingrained within culture and society, exercised a monolithic hold over its population. But how did a small sect of isolated and intensely committed congregations become a mass movement centrally directed from Rome? As Peter Heather shows in this illuminating new history, there was nothing inevitable about Christendom's rise and eventual dominance. From Constantine the Great's pivotal conversion to Christianity to the crisis that followed the collapse of the Roman empire—which left the religion teetering on the edge of extinction—to the astonishing revolution of the eleventh century and beyond, out of which the Papacy emerged as the head of a vast international corporation, Heather traces Christendom's chameleonlike capacity for self-reinvention, as it not only defined a fledgling religion but transformed it into an institution that wielded effective authority across virtually all of the disparate peoples of medieval Europe. Authoritative, vivid, and filled with new insights, this is an unparalleled history of early Christianity.
“A colossal book written by a colossus in the field" (The New York Review of Books): A major reinterpretation of the religious superstate that came to define both Europe and Christianity itself, by one of our foremost medieval historians.

Lecture with Author:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RDgIQTMjZA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aupVJkTnIqY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_94mPhnLng

The group can be identified by the sign and lights.

Come and join us for a historical board game covering the king Phillips war, Tthe costliest war in colonial history. If your ambitious you can read the book, “The name of war: king Phillip’s war and the origins of American identity,” by Jill Lepore. Or, “The cutting-off way: indigenous warfare in eastern North America 1500-1800,” by Wayne Lee. We will play the boardgame and discuss history.
Here is a video describing the boardgame and showing an example of game play:
https://boardgamegeek.com/video/556153/flintlock-and-tomahawk-a-king-philips-war-board-ga/flintlock-and-tomahawk-a-king-philips-war-board-ga

The game developer is a prominent history youtuber. Here is an excellent series on King Phillips War.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY1cuPRFl6I&list=PLwCiRao53J1zC_zUgjuB7hIVreGthh9nF