Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, C. 600-900 |
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| Author:
| Foot, Sarah |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-85946-2 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2006 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $102.00 |
Book Description:
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This major 2006 history of English monasticism explores the history of the Church between the conversion to Christianity in the sixth century and a monastic revival in the tenth. Sarah Foot argues that historians have been wrong to see minsters in the light of ideals of Benedictine monasticism.
This major 2006 history of English monasticism explores the history of the Church between the conversion to Christianity in the sixth century and a monastic revival in the tenth. Sarah Foot argues that historians have been wrong to see minsters in the light of ideals of Benedictine monasticism.