| Physical description |
xiii, 333 pages : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Religion, politics, and society in Britain. |
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Religion, politics, and society in Britain series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-324) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Politics and society in Britain c.600-800 -- 2. The conversion of Britain to Christianity -- 3. The organisation and culture of the church in early medieval Britain -- 4. Religion, politics and society in early medieval Britain -- App. 1. Timeline of main events and people -- App. 2. Pictish kings from king lists P and Q -- App. 3. Kings of Northumbria from AEthelfrith to Eardwulf -- App. 4. Kings of Mercia from Penda to Coenwulf -- App. 5. The union of the Bernician and Deiran royal houses through marriage -- App. 6. Two rival theories for the descent of the Pictish kings Constantine (789-820) and Onuist, the sons of Uurguist/Fergus. |
| Summary |
"Throughout the history of Britain religion has been a potent and influential force, permeating social and political life at many different levels. Yet it has often been written about in restricted institutional terms without accounting for the ways in which religious belief and practice have been bound up with wider social and political developments. Religion, Politics and Society in Britain shifts the focus on this complex and fluctuating relationship and investigates the changing role of religion in British life from 600 A.D. to the present."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- Church history -- 449-1066.
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Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.
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| ISBN |
0582772923 |
| Standard Number |
9780582772922 |
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