LEADER 03712nam 22006375 450 001 9910786909103321 005 20091021153313.0 010 $a1-4725-9922-5 010 $a1-4411-1910-8 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472599223 035 $a(CKB)3710000000109744 035 $a(EBL)1748249 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001305312 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11850698 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001305312 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11248774 035 $a(PQKB)10363219 035 $a(OCoLC)1196817457 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09257760 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1748249 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000109744 100 $a20090911d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons, c. 597-700 $ediscourses of life, death and afterlife /$fMarilyn Dunn 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cContinuum,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84725-189-7 311 $a1-4411-1013-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [249]-268) and index. 327 $aIntroduction - Approaches to the Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons -- 1. Discourses of the Dead: Popular Intuitions, Christian Doctrines and Epidemic Disease -- 2. Gregory the Great English Mission -- 3. Anglo-Saxon Paganism and the Living -- 4. Anglo-Saxon Paganism and the Dead -- 5. The Diffusion of Christianity and the Establishment of the Anglo-Saxon Church -- 6. Christianization: Problems and Responses -- 7. How Christian was England in c. 700? 330 $a"This groundbreaking work treats the Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons as a process of religious change and is the first to establish the importance of Christian doctrines and popular intuitions about death and the dead in the transition, focusing on the outbreak of epidemic disease between 664 and 687 as a crucial period for the survival of Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England. It analyzes Anglo-Saxon conceptions of the soul and afterlife as well as traditional mortuary rituals, re-interpreting archaeological evidence to argue that the change from furnished to unfurnished burial in the late seventh and early eighth century demonstrates the success of the church's attempts to counter popular fears that the plague was caused by the return of the dead to carry off the living. The study employs ethnographic comparisons and anthropological theory to further our understanding of pagan Anglo-Saxon deities, ritual and ritual practitioners, and also considers the challenges confronting the Anglo-Saxon church, as it faced not only popular attachment to traditional values and beliefs, but also gendered responses to, or syncretistic constructions of, Christianity."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 606 $aAnglo-Saxons$xReligion 606 $aChristian converts$zEngland 606 $aConversion$xChristianity$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aPaganism$zEngland$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $2Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 607 $aEngland$xChurch history$y449-1066 607 $aEngland$xReligious life and customs 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$yAnglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 615 0$aAnglo-Saxons$xReligion. 615 0$aChristian converts 615 0$aConversion$xChristianity$xHistory 615 0$aPaganism$xHistory 676 $a274.202 700 $aDunn$b Marilyn$0602704 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786909103321 996 $aThe Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons, c. 597-700$93790080 997 $aUNINA