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From the impact of the first monasteries in the seventh century, to the emergence of the local parochial system five hundred years later, the Church was a force for change in Anglo-Saxon society. It shaped culture and ideas, social and economic behaviour, and the organization of landscape and settlement. This book traces how the widespread foundation of monastic sites ('minsters') during c.670-730 gave the recently pagan English new ways of living, of exploiting their resources, and of absorbing European culture, as well as ...

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The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society 2006, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780199211173

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The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society 2005, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780198226956

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