Seaman, A. (2014). Tempora Christiana? Conversion and Christianisation in Western Britain, AD 300-700. Church Archaeology 16. Vol 16, pp. 1-22. https://doi.org/10.5284/1081958. Cite this via datacite
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Tempora Christiana? Conversion and Christianisation in Western Britain, AD 300-700 | ||
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Church Archaeology 16 | ||
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Church Archaeology | ||
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1 - 22 | ||
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It is argued that conversion and Christianisation in the late and post-Roman West were complex and variegated processes that involved the reception, internalisation and institutionalisation of Christianity within a variety of socio-political contexts. These processes were simplest where accommodations between Christian and secular ideologies, traditions, attitudes to power and authority could be achieved without causing significant upheaval. The Christianisation of the Roman aristocracy was facilitated by its framing within the traditional imperial and military idioms of the late-Roman West, but less Romanised areas, such as the west of Britain, were not so conducive to this form of Christianisation. Moreover, the collapse of the imperial system in Britain in the early 5th century deprived evangelists of this important ideological and institutional framework. Thus Christianity had comparatively little impact in western Britain throughout the 4th and into the 5th century, and evangelists were faced with a difficult task. It is suggested that it may have been the encroachment of the pagan Anglo-Saxons that instigated the widespread adoption of Christianity amongst the post-Roman British. Nevertheless, Christianisation was a slow and complex process, and it took several generations for Christianity to become firmly established throughout western Britain. The British aristocracy are likely to have been Christian by the time that Gildas was writing in the middle of the 6th century, but forms of paganism persisted throughout this century and beyond. | ||
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2014 | ||
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30 Sep 2020 |
