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Bede
672-735
What did Bede have to say about the British as evangelicals?
What is the value of the correspondence from Pope Gregory to St. Augustine?
What is the value of the correspondence from Pope Gregory to Aethelberht of Kent?
What problems did the Roman missionaries encounter from British Christians?
Why did Gregory the Great send missionaries to convert the English?
How did Roman Christianity make its way to Northumbria?
What was the relationship between Augustine and the British bishops?
A. He was their unchallenged leader
B. Despite some hesitation, they followed him
C. They refused to cooperate with him
D. Communication around 600 was so bad that they did not even know about each other
What obstacles did the Roman missionaries face in their attempts to convert the pagan Anglo-Saxons?
A. Apostasy
B. Violent deaths of Christian kings
C. The unstable nature of authority among Germanic tribes
D. The rival customs of Celtic missionaries
E. All of the Above
How did Book 2 of Bede end?
A. With the excommunication of the Irish
B. With the Synod of Whitby
C. With a reversal for the Roman Church: the death of Edwin
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
Bede’s heroes in the second book include
A. Gregory the Great
B. Bishops: Augustine, Laurence and Paulinus
C. Edwin of Northumbria
D. None of the above
E. All of the Above
Christian Evangelism among the
English 550-700 CE
Gregory sends Monks
to convert the
English
Roman Tonsure
Augustine of
Canterbury
c. 600
Anglo-Saxon
Kingdoms 600s
Ethelbert of Kent
• Married Christian Bertha of the Franks
• Converted to Christianity after arrival of Augustine in 597
• Bretwalda• Produced first
vernacular legal code in England
Bertha of Kent
• Frankish princess who brought Christian faith with her when she married Ethelbert
• Inspired Augustine mission
• Established St Martins Canterbury
Anglo-Saxon
Kingdoms 600s
Raedwald
• East Anglian King• Baptized 605• Died 625• Induced to adopt
Christianity by Ethelbert of Kent
• Bretwalda• Both pagan and Christian• Buried at Sutton Hoo?
Sutton Hoo Burial Mask
Sutton Hoo Burial Mounds
Anglo-Saxon
Kingdoms 600s
Northumbrian BretwaldasOswald
d. 641Edwin584-632
Oswiud. 670
Yeavering - Northumbria
The Cuneus at Yeavering
Anglo-Saxon
Kingdoms c. 700
Bede
672-735
Augustine of
Canterbury
c. 600
Bede
672-735
Celtic Settlements
c. 200 BCE
Celtic Settlements c. 550 CE
Roman Tonsure
Layout of an Irish Monastery
The Proliferation of
Irish/Celtic Monasticism
500-800 CE
Celtic Monasteries in Britain:
Lindisfarne and Iona
Lindisfarne – Holy Island
The Lindisfarne
Gospels
c. 700 CE
Celtic Cross
Synod of Whitby - 664