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> It seems to me, though this is not an area in which I am very widely read,
> that people tend to forget that Britain was a Christian country under the
> Romans and the Anglo-Saxons whose conversion Bede recounts had not been
> settled there for very long. There may be no source material for the
> British church available but it is certainly worth some consideration and
> would provide another angle from which to view Bede and his
> contemporaries.
>
If you choose to pursue this line of study, I would recommend
starting with a book called _Studies in the Early British Church_ which
contains articles by N. Chadwick, K. Hughes, and C. Brooke. Although
published in 1958 and certainly superseded in some ways by later studies,
the essays in this book will give you a beginning. For example, the Chadwick
articles are entitled, "Early Culture and Learning in North Wales" and
"Intellectual Life in West Wales in the Last Days of the Celtic Church."
Refer to works by Wendy Davies to update the views expressed by Chadwick, et
al.
Francine Nicholson
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