{{Short description|Medieval Christian nationalist movement}} [[File:Krist spred 3.jpg|thumb|350px|[[Christendom]] by A.D. 600 after its [[Spread of Christianity|spread to Africa and Europe]] from the [[Middle East]]. Ethiopia and the Indian Malabar Coast not pictured.]] [[File:Church of the East in the Middle Ages.svg|thumb|350px|The [[Church of the East]] at its largest extent during the Middle Ages.]] In the [[Middle Ages]], efforts were made in order to establish a single [[Christian state]] of '''Pan-Christianity''' by uniting the countries within [[Christendom]].<ref name="Snyder1990">{{cite book |last1=Snyder |first1=Louis L. |title=Encyclopedia of Nationalism |date=1990 |publisher=St. James Press |isbn=978-1-55862-101-5 |page=282 |language=en |quote=Major religions in the past, especially Christianity, have attempted to include all their adherents in a large union, but they have not been successful. Throughout most of the Middle Ages in Western Europe, attempts were made again and again to unite all the Christian world into a kind of Pan-Christianity, which would combine all Christians in a secular-religious state as a successor to the Roman Empire.}}</ref><ref name="Snyder1984">{{cite book |last1=Snyder |first1=Louis Leo |title=Macro-nationalisms: A History of the Pan-movements |date=1984 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=978-0-313-23191-9 |page=129 |language=en |quote=Throughout the better part of the Middle Ages, elaborate attempts were made to create what was, in effect, a Pan-Christianity, an effort to unite "all" the Western Christian world into a successor state of the Roman Empire.}}</ref> [[Christian nationalism]] may have played a role in this era in which Christians felt the impulse to recover lands in which Christianity flourished.<ref name="USE2005">{{cite book |title=Parole de l'Orient, Volume 30 |date=2005 |publisher=Université Saint-Esprit |page=488 |language=en}}</ref> [[Early Muslim conquests|Muslims militarily invaded]] parts of North Africa, East Asia, Southern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East, as well as parts of Europe.<ref name="LewisChurchill2008">{{cite book |last1=Lewis |first1=Bernard Ellis |last2=Churchill |first2=Buntzie Ellis |title=Islam: The Religion and the People |date=2008 |publisher=Pearson Prentice Hall |isbn=978-0-13-271606-2 |page=76 |language=en}}</ref> In response, Christians across national borders mobilized militarily and a "wave of Christian reconquest achieved the [[Reconquista|recovery of Spain, Portugal]], and southern Italy, but was unable to recover North Africa nor—from a Christian point of view, most painful of all—the Holy Land of Christendom."<ref name="LewisChurchill2008"/>
== See also == {{Portal|Christianity}} * [[Antidisestablishmentarianism]] * [[Christian nationalism]] * [[Christian state]] * [[Christian Reconstructionism]] * [[History of Christian flags]] * [[Integralism]] * [[Theonomy]]
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