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

A study of social organization, political power, conversion to Christianity, and church building in Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire in 400-1066 AD, Kingship, Society, and

Christian theology and religious belief were crucially important to Anglo-Saxon society, and are manifest in the surviving textual, visual and material evidence

Essays bring out the important and complex roles played by Anglo-Saxon churchmen, including Bede and lesser-known figures. Both episcopal and abbatial authority

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