Böcker av Benedicta Ward

From the rich tradition of the Anglo-Saxon Church of the sixth, seventh, and eighth centuries, Benedicta Ward has selected prayers and passages for meditation from both Latin and Anglo-Saxon sources. The mixture of Latin and Celtic Christian cultures, distilled and appropriated by the Germanic Anglo-Saxons, produced a distinctive English spiritual tradition which embraced kings and princesses, abbesses and monks, cowherds and poets, soldiers and beggars, and birds and animals. `It is possible through these passages to walk with these men and women as friends and see how their lives became filled with the life of Christ, in pain and desolation as well as in wonder, love, and praise. '

The first information about English Christianity was written down by the monk Bede in the eighth century. Ward looks at this early age of English Christianity and how it ended with the attacks of the Vikings, and the "golden age" of faith and culture which followed in the tenth century.

A collection of studies concerned with the value and meaning of Christian holiness and spirituality, notably as expressed in hagiographic literature, from Late Antiquity through to the Middle Ages.

* The second volume of a compelling, original work which will redefine our perceptions of medieval civilization, the renaissance and the evolution of modern Europe. * Written by a man who was widely regarded as the greatest medieval historian. .