Title: Vision and image in early Christian England
First published: 1999
Description: "Nothing in Anglo-Saxon pagan culture could withstand the impact of Christianity after the arrival of the disciples of Pope Gregory I in England. Professor Henderson's book investigates the ways in, which the English in the two centuries following their conversion, expressed their new convictions about this world, and the next. It deals with the impact on the Anglo-Saxons of books and travel, discusses personal sanctity and the manipulation of belief by the state, and identifies the positive role of art in a society constantly afflicted by wars and epidemics."--Jacket.
Subjects: Art, Early Christian, Christian art and symbolism, Early Christian Art, Themes, motives, Medieval Art, Medieval Decoration and ornament
Places: England
Time periods: Medieval, 500-1500
LC classification: N7943.A1 H46 1999