Description
'Christians and Pagans' offers a comprehensive and highly readable account of the coming of Christianity to Britain, its coexistence or conflict with paganism, and its impact on the lives of both indigenous islanders and invading Anglo-Saxons. It also presents a full analysis of Christianity's impact on cultural life, culminating in a succinct and penetrating account of the achievements of the Northumbrian renaissance.
The Christianity of Roman Britain, so often treated in isolation, is here deftly integrated with the history of the British churches of the Celtic world, with Ireland, Iona and Pictland. Combining chronicle and literary evidence with the fruits of the latest archaeological research, Malcolm Lambert illuminates the ways in which the conversion process changed the hearts and minds of early Britain.
Malcolm Lambert was reader in medieval history at Bristol University.
Author: Malcolm Lambert
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 07/30/2010
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.82d
ISBN13: 9780300236576
ISBN10: 0300236573
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Church | History
- History | Europe | Medieval
- History | Europe | Ireland
About the Author
Malcolm Lambert has taught history and theology at the universities of Bristol and Reading and is the author of Franciscan Poverty, Medieval Heresy, and The Cathars.
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