From the impact of the first monasteries in the seventh century, to the emergence of the local parochial system five hundred years later, the Church was a force

From the impact of the first monasteries in the seventh century, to the emergence of the local parochial system five hundred years later, the Church was a force

A study of social organization, political power, conversion to Christianity, and church building in Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire in 400-1066 AD, Kingship, Society, and

Essays bring out the important and complex roles played by Anglo-Saxon churchmen, including Bede and lesser-known figures. Both episcopal and abbatial authority

Christian theology and religious belief were crucially important to Anglo-Saxon society, and are manifest in the surviving textual, visual and material evidence