Britain and Early Christian Europe: Studies in Early Medieval History and Culture

From: The Catholic Historical Review | Date: October 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Britain and Early Christian Europe: Studies in Early Medieval History and Culture. By Patrick Sims-Williams. [Variorum Collected Studies Series,] (Brookfield,Vermont: Variorum,Ashgate Publishing Company. 1995. Pp. x, 337.)

This collection brings together fourteen essays, previously published separately, assembled under three headings, the Adventus Saxonum, Anglo-Saxon ecclesiastical culture, and early medieval devotion. The majority are on AngloSaxon subjects while the others range from Welsh origins stories and charters to Irish and Spanish symptoms in the early medieval liturgy. All are ...

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