Anglo-Saxon Church
History of the church and christianity in England before the Norman Conquest.
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Charters of New Minster, Winchester
by Sean Miller
These 34 documents from the pre-Conquest archive of the New Minster reflect aspects of ecclesiastical and royal life in the 10th and 11th centuries. The Minster was perhaps founded to serve the spiritual needs of the royal household and the archive ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £50.00, Our Price GB £14.95
In the Shadow of Death: Saint Boniface and the Conversion of Hessia, 721-54
by John-Henry Clay
This book is the first dedicated interdisciplinary study of Bonifaces thirty-three-year mission among the Hessians. The author relates the historical sources to the rich archaeological heritage of the region in order to describe the political and cultural context of the mission and its relationship to long-term Frankish interests in the Saxon borderlands. Thanks to the survival of many letters between the missionary community and its supporters, ...
Hardback. Price GB £76.50
Christians and Pagans: The Conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede
by Malcolm Lambert
The subtitle is the key to this elegantly written history of how Britain became Christian, for unlike many accounts which treat either Romano-British Christianity, or Anglo-Saxon Christianity, Lambert examines this long 600 year period as a whole. The departure of the Roman army and subsequent invasions of the Pagan Saxons have often been held to have all but destroyed the church in Britain, but Lambert shows that despite sharp dislocations, ...
Hardback. Price GB £30.00
Sustaining Belief: The Church of Worcester from c.870 to c.1100
by Francesca Tinti
This book reconstructs the late Anglo-Saxon history of the church of Worcester, covering the period between Bishops Wærferth and Wulfstan II. Starting with an examination of the episcopal succession and the relations between bishops and cathedral community, the volume moves on to consider the development of the church of Worcester's landed estate, its extent and its organization. These are analysed in connection with the very significant ...
Hardback. Price GB £70.00
Anglo-Saxons in a Frankish World, 690-900
by James T. Palmer
This study provides the first major reassessment of the Anglo-Saxons' influence on the Frankish world for fifty years. It argues that, because figures like Boniface were so important to the cult of saints east of the Rhine, stories about them became central to the ways in which different groups responded to the rapidly changing landscape of Carolingian culture and politics. The study draws on letters, charters, and other evidence to ...
Hardback. Price GB £60.00
The Early Medieval Church in Wales
by David Petts
This fine book explores the archaeology of the church in Wales from the arrival of Christianity in the Roman period until the end of the independenet Welsh kingdoms in the thirteenth century. David Petts give a clear overview of each of the principal areas which make up the archaeological record - architecture, artefacts, including liturgical equipment, sculpture, books and manuscripts, burials, and the siting of churches and holy places in the ...
Paperback. Price GB £18.99
Wearmouth and Jarrow, Vol 2
by Rosemary Cramp
Founded by Benedict Biscop in the late 7th century, the twin monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow achieved an international reputation through the writings of Bede. Destroyed in the mid 9th century the house was refounded in the 11th and survives to this day as a seat of religious scholarship. This volume describes the material remains from the excavations. 676p (English Heritage 2006)
Paperback. Price GB £80.00
The Westminster Corridor: The Anglo-Saxon Story of Westminster Abbey and its Lands in Middlesex
by David Sullivan
This book describes the foundation and early history of Westminster Abbey, and in particular its endowments of land, some of which formed a corridor through Middlesex. With the aid of some excellent maps this book traces the growth and consolidation of these estates and examines the effect which the Abbey's possessions had on the landscape of what is now north west London. 191p col and b/w figs (Historical Publications 1994)
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £17.00, Our Price GB £6.95
Intersections: the Archaeology and History of Christianity in England, 400-1200
edited by Martin Henig and Nigel Ramsay
This volume is a festschrift in honour of Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjolbye-Biddle, and contains twenty papers, which tackle a wide range of subjects relating to the archaeology, history, and art history of Christianity in England during the Late Antique ...
Paperback. Price GB £49.00
Anglo-Saxon Hartlepool and the Foundations of English Christianity
by Robin Daniels
The monastery at Hartlepool has long identified with the Anglo-Saxon foundation of Heruteu, mentioned in Bedeas being reorganised by the Abbess Hild in c.649. Major excavations on the moastic area at Hartlepool headland have taken place from the ...
Paperback. Price GB £30.00
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