Using a comparative and broad perspective, "Religion, Politics
and Society in Britain 800-1066" draws on archaeology, art history,
material culture, texts from charms to chronicles, from royal
law-codes to sermons to poems, and other evidence to demonstrate
the centrality of Christianity and the Church in Britain 800-1066.
It delineates their contributions to the changes in politics,
economy, society and culture that occurred between 800 and 1066,
from nation-building to practicalities of government to
landscape.
The period 800-1066 saw the beginnings of a fundamental
restructuring of politics, society and economy throughout Christian
Europe in which religion played a central role. In Britain too the
interaction of religion with politics and society was profound and
pervasive. There was no part of life which Christianity and the
Church did not touch: they affected belief, thought and behaviour
at all levels of society.
This book points out interconnections within society and between
archaeological, art historical and literary evidence and
similarities between aspects of culture not only within Britain but
also in comparison with Armenian Christendom. A. E. Redgate
explores the importance of religious ideas, institutions, personnel
and practices in the creation and expression of identities and
communities, the structure and functioning of society and the life
of the individual.
This book will be essential reading for students of early
medieval Britain and religious and social history.
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