Title: Christians and pagans : the conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede /
Authors: Lambert, Malcolm
Publisher: Yale University Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Great Britain Church history; Great Britain Church history
Abstract: 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.
Contents: The lost church : Christianity in Roman Britain -- British Christians and Germanic pagans -- The fate of the British -- The Irish dimension : Palladius, Patrick and Columba -- The mission from Rome -- Oswald and Oswiu -- Conflict and reconciliation : Wilfrid and Theodore -- Christian Britain.