Heaven and Earth in Anglo-Saxon England: Theology and Society in an Age of Faith
| By: | Foxhall Forbes, Helen, Dr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781409423713 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781409474371 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Christian theology and religious belief were crucially important to Anglo-Saxon society, and are manifest in the surviving textual, visual and material evidence. This is the first full-length study investigating how Christian theology and religious beliefs permeated society and underpinned social values in early medieval England. The influence of the early medieval Church as an institution is widely acknowledged, but Christian theology itself is generally considered to have been accessible only to a small educated elite.
This book shows that theology had a much greater and more significant impact than has been recognised. An examination of theology in its social context, and how it was bound up with local authorities and powers, reveals a much more subtle interpretation of secular processes, and shows how theological debate affected the ways that religious and lay individuals lived and died.
This was not a one-way flow, however: this book also examines how social and cultural practices and interests affected the development of theology in Anglo-Saxon England, and how