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The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society (Hardcover, New)
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From the impact of the first monasteries in the seventh century, to
the emergence of the local parochial system five hundred years
later, the Church was a force for change in Anglo-Saxon society. It
shaped culture and ideas, social and economic behaviour, and the
organization of landscape and settlement. This book traces how the
widespread foundation of monastic sites ('minsters') during
c.670-730 gave the recently pagan English new ways of living, of
exploiting their resources, and of absorbing European culture, as
well as opening new spiritual and intellectual horizons. Through
the era of Viking wars, and the tenth-century reconstruction of
political and economic life, the minsters gradually lost their
wealth, their independence, and their role as sites of high
culture, but grew in stature as foci of local society and
eventually towns. After 950, with the increasing prominence of
manors, manor-houses, and village communities, a new and much
larger category of small churches were founded, endowed, and
rebuilt: the parish churches of the emergent eleventh- and
twelfth-century local parochial system. In this innovative study,
John Blair brings together written, topographical, and
archaeological evidence to build a multi-dimensional picture of
what local churches and local communities meant to each other in
early England.
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