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Christendom
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Christendom
Christendom
has several meanings. In a
cultural
sense, it refers to the religion itself, or to the
worldwide community
of
Christians
, adherents of
Christianity
. In its historical sense, the term usually refers to the
medieval
and
early modern period
, during which the Christian world represented a
geopolitical
power juxtaposed with both
paganism
and especially the
military threat
of the
Muslim world
. In the traditional Roman Catholic sense of the word, it refers to the sum total of nations in which the
Catholic Church
is the established religion of the state, or which have ecclesiastical
concordats
with the
Holy See
.
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