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Posting mostly so I can see if Textcritic can help me out here. I'd like to find a really good historical text on early christianity. The growth in the early days from the time of the writings of the first Gospels up to, and preferably including, the Council of Nicaea and it's aftermaths.

I've been looking around, but a lot of them seem geared to "Christians" and I'm not really interested in that. I'm just curious from a purely anthropological standpoint. Facts about what we can know facts about, not conjecture and speculation.

Any hints?