Early Christianity in South-West Britain
Early Christianity in South-West Britain This book offers a new assessment of early Christianity in south-west Britain from the fourth to the tenth centuries, a rich period which includes the…
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Early Christianity in South-West Britain
This book offers a new assessment of early Christianity in south-west Britain from the fourth to the tenth centuries, a rich period which includes the transition from Roman to native British to Saxon models of church. The fifth-century Dorset villas of Frampton and Hinton St Mary, with their complex baptistery mosaics, indicate the presence of sophisticated Christian house churches. The book will be based on evidence from archaeological excavations, early texts and recent critical scholarship and cover Wessex, Devon and Cornwall.In the south-west, Wessex provides the greatest evidence of Roman Christianity.
The author uses evidence from St Patrick's fifth-century 'Confessions' to describe how members of a villa house church lived. The fact that these two Roman villas are only 15 miles apart suggests a network of small Christian communities in this region. Wessex was slowly
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