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The christianization of the Anglo-Saxons, c. 597-c.700 : discourses of life, death and afterlife /

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 an...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dunn, Marilyn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York, New York : Continuum, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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