'A heavenly book, elegant and thoughtful. Get one for yourself and
one for the church-crawler in your life!' Lucy Worsley Christianity
has been central to the lives of the people of Britain and Ireland
for almost 2,000 years. It has given us laws, customs, traditions
and our national character. From a persecuted minority in Roman
Britannia through the 'golden age' of Anglo-Saxon monasticism, the
devastating impact of the Vikings, the alliance of church and state
after the Norman Conquest to the turmoil of the Reformation that
saw the English monarch replace the Pope and the Puritan
Commonwealth that replaced the king, it is a tangled, tumultuous
story of faith and achievement, division and bloodshed. In If These
Stones Could Talk Peter Stanford journeys through England,
Scotland, Wales and Ireland to churches, abbeys, chapels and
cathedrals, grand and humble, ruined and thriving, ancient and
modern, to chronicle how a religion that began in the Middle East
came to define our past and shape our present. In exploring the
stories of these buildings that are still so much a part of the
landscape, the details of their design, the treasured objects that
are housed within them, the people who once stood in their pulpits
and those who sat in their pews, he builds century by century the
narrative of what Christianity has meant to the nations of the
British Isles, how it is reflected in the relationship between
rulers and ruled, and the sense it gives about who we are and how
we live with each other. 'There is no better navigator through the
space in which art, culture and spirituality meet than Peter
Stanford' Cole Moreton, Independent on Sunday
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