1st Edition
The Missionary Life Saints and the Evangelisation of Europe 400-1050
By Ian Wood
Copyright 2001
324 Pages
by
Routledge
324 Pages
by
Routledge
The great missionary figures were crucial to their own time and to posterity. They brought Christian belief and culture to the pagan societies of Dark Age Europe. Not only agents of change, they were also some of Europe's finest historians, leaving a detailed record of the cultures they transformed. The work of St Augustine in England is just one example. Anyone who has read Ian Wood's... Read more
I. INTRODUCTORY. 1. The Chritianization of Europe, 400 - 1000. 2. From Patrick to Bede. II. THE ANGLO-SAXONS AND THEIR LEGACY. 3. Boniface, Mainz and Fulda. 4. Alcunin and Echternach. 5. Utrecht and Münster. 6. Hamburg and Bremen. III. BAVARIANS, SLAVS AND SAXONS. 7. Salzburg and Freising in the Eight Century. 8. Ninth-Century Salzburg. 9. The Latin Legends of Wenceslas. 10. Adalbert of Prague. 11. Bruno of Querfurt. IV. CONCLUSION. The Missionary, The 'Familiar' and the 'Other'.
Biography
Ian Wood
