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Online-Ressource (289 p)
ISBN:
9781441110138
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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
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Contents; List of Abbreviations; 1 Approaches to the Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons; 2 Discourses of the Dead: Popular Intuitions, Christian Doctrines and Epidemic Disease; 3 Gregory the Great and the English Mission; 4 Anglo-Saxon Paganism and the Living; 5 Anglo-Saxon Paganism and the Dead; 6 The Diffusion of Christianity and the Establishment of the Anglo-Saxon Church; 7 Christianization: Problems and Responses; 8 How Christian Was Anglo-Saxon England c.700?; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441119100
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441110138
Additional Edition:
Print version The Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons c.597-c.700 : Discourses of Life, Death and Afterlife
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English
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