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RELIGION AND LITERATURE IN WESTERN ENGLAND, 600-800
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Patrick Sims-Williams, Simon Keynes, Andy Orchard |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521673429 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521673426 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
16 April, 2005 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England No. 3 |
| Pages: |
468 |
| Description: |
Describes the early conversion to Christianity of the pagan peoples of an area stretching from Stratford-upon-Avon to Offa's Dyke. |
| Synopsis: |
Even the Venerable Bede knew little about the two Anglo-Saxon kingdoms described in this book. In the sixth and seventh centuries the pagan peoples of the Hwicce and Magonsaetan occupied the frontier from Stratford-upon-Avon as far as the Welsh kingdoms west of Offa's Dyke. They retained their own kings, aristocracy and independent monasteries into the eighth century. Using archaeological, place-name and historical sources, Dr Sims-Williams describes the early conversion to Christianity of these people, the origins of the dioceses of Worcester and Hereford, and the precocious growth of Anglo-Saxon monasticism. Drawing on many neglected documents he reveals a wide range of Continental, Irish and Anglo-Saxon influences on the church and shows that the monasteries were as varied in character as the Northumbrian foundations described by Bede. |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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