Christianity in Britain, 300-700
Author | : Maurice Willmore Barley |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Continuum |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Maurice Willmore Barley |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Continuum |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Richard Patrick Crosland Hanson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : M. W. Barley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Archaeology, Medieval |
ISBN | : 9780598211064 |
Author | : E.O. James |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2022-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000601307 |
First published in 1949, A History of Christianity in England is a kaleidoscopic view of the religious situation in England for readers and students who wish to eventually take it up as a serious study. The author asserts that the influence of the Church and the State in the development of the English national life and character has also led to the growth of a unique English Christianity. English religion appears neither completely Catholic, properly Protestant nor consistently Liberal, rendering itself an enigma. The author believes that the confusion of its various discordant parts can be resolved by situating English Christianity within a historical continuum. This book will be of interest to students of theology, history and Christianity.
Author | : Henry Mayr-Harting |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0271038519 |
Author | : Paul Fouracre |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1022 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521362917 |
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Author | : Marilyn Dunn |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2010-07-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1441119108 |
This groundbreaking work treats the Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons as a process of religious change and is the first to establish the importance of Christian doctrines and popular intuitions about death and the dead in the transition, focusing on the outbreak of epidemic disease between 664 and 687 as a crucial period for the survival of Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England. It analyzes Anglo-Saxon conceptions of the soul and afterlife as well as traditional mortuary rituals, re-interpreting archaeological evidence to argue that the change from furnished to unfurnished burial in the late seventh and early eighth century demonstrates the success of the church's attempts to counter popular fears that the plague was caused by the return of the dead to carry off the living. The study employs ethnographic comparisons and anthropological theory to further our understanding of pagan Anglo-Saxon deities, ritual and ritual practitioners, and also considers the challenges confronting the Anglo-Saxon church, as it faced not only popular attachment to traditional values and beliefs, but also gendered responses to, or syncretistic constructions of, Christianity.
Author | : Georgia Irby-Massie |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2018-07-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004351221 |
This volume deals with the religions of the Roman soldiers in Britain and the religious interactions of soldiers and civilians. Drawing on epigraphic and archaeological evidence, the discussion shows the complexities of Roman, Eastern, and Celtic rites, how each system influenced the ritual and liturgy of the others, and how each system was altered over time. The first part presents discursive chapters on topics such as the cult of the emperor, Mithraism in Britain, the cults of Celtic warriors and healers, the Romanization of Civilian religions, and Christianity; the second part consists of an annotated catalogue of the epigraphical sources. Of significance is the broad range of materials synthesized to show the extent to which native religions influenced and were influenced by imported Roman and Eastern cults.
Author | : Elizabeth Rees |
Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 553 |
Release | : 2020-03-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1911188569 |
This book offers a new assessment of early Christianity in south-west Britain from the fourth to the tenth centuries, a rich period which includes the transition from Roman to native British to Saxon models of church. The book will be based on evidence from archaeological excavations, early texts and recent critical scholarship and cover Wessex, Devon and Cornwall. In the south-west, Wessex provides the greatest evidence of Roman Christianity. The fifth-century Dorset villas of Frampton and Hinton St Mary, with their complex baptistery mosaics, indicate the presence of sophisticated Christian house churches. The fact that these two Roman villas are only 15 miles apart suggests a network of small Christian communities in this region. The author uses evidence from St Patrick’s fifth-century ‘Confessions’ to describe how members of a villa house church lived. Wessex was slowly Christianised: in Gloucestershire, the pagan healing sanctuary at Chedworth provides evidence of later use as a Christian baptistery; at Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire, a baptistery was dug into the mosaic floor of an imposing villa, which may by then have been owned by a bishop. In Somerset a number of recently excavated sites demonstrate the transition from a pagan temple to a Christian church. Beside the pagan temple at Lamyatt, later female burials suggest, unusually, a small monastic group of women. Wells cathedral grew beside the site of a Roman villa’s funeral chapel. In Street, a large oval enclosure indicates the probable site of a ‘Celtic’ monastery. Early Christian cemeteries have been excavated at Shepton Mallet and elsewhere. Lundy Island, off the Devon coast, provides evidence of a Celtic monastery, with its inscribed stones that commemorate early monks. At Exeter, a Saxon anthology includes numerous riddles, one of which describes in detail the production of an illuminated manuscript in a south-western monastery. Oliver Padel’s meticulous documentation of Cornish place-names has demonstrated that, of all the Celtic regions, Cornwall has by far the highest number of dedications to a single, otherwise unknown individual, typically consisting of a small church and a farm by the sea. These small monastic ‘cells’ have hitherto received little attention as a model of church in early British Christianity, and the latter part of the text focuses on various aspects of this model, as lived out in coastal and in upland settlements, on islands, and in relation to larger Breton monasteries. Study of 60 Breton sites has demonstrated possible connections between larger Breton monasteries and smaller Cornish cells.
Author | : Charles Thomas |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1981-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780520043923 |