The Medieval Foundation of EnglandDoubleday, 1967 - 270 Seiten Survey of England's social life, habits, beliefs and political development, from earliest times to the early fifteenth century, A.D. |
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... Christ Mass or Christmas . Such a conversion was necessarily incomplete . It made hea- thens Christian , yet it also made Christianity a little heathen . And it suffered from the disadvantage - the reverse of its bloodless char- acter ...
... Christ Mass or Christmas . Such a conversion was necessarily incomplete . It made hea- thens Christian , yet it also made Christianity a little heathen . And it suffered from the disadvantage - the reverse of its bloodless char- acter ...
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... Christian ideal among the Nor- thumbrian tribesmen . The contribution of the Celtic evangelists to England's conversion lay not in doctrine but in example . It was this that won the simple English to Christ . For if the preachers ...
... Christian ideal among the Nor- thumbrian tribesmen . The contribution of the Celtic evangelists to England's conversion lay not in doctrine but in example . It was this that won the simple English to Christ . For if the preachers ...
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... Christian faith and discipline they were paid to teach . So incense had taken the place of pagan burnt offerings , holy water of haunted wells and streams , Christian incantations of sorcerer's spells . Despite the manuals and ...
... Christian faith and discipline they were paid to teach . So incense had taken the place of pagan burnt offerings , holy water of haunted wells and streams , Christian incantations of sorcerer's spells . Despite the manuals and ...
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Rude Settlers | 1 |
The Cross and the Sword | 23 |
The Norman Discipline | 51 |
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