ISBN10: 0719048273, ISBN13: 9780719048272, [publisher: Manchester University Press] Hardcover 22x14cm, x,293 pages. Bookplate. Minor wear. VG. [Summary: The story of the conversion of the English to Christianity traditionally opens with Augustine's arrival in 597. On the 1400th anniversary of that event, The Convert Kings offers a critical re-evaluation of the process of conversion which assesses what the act really meant to new converts, who was responsible for conversion, and why particular influential figures both accepted it for themselves and threw their influence behind the spread of Christianity. Conversion has often been seen as something which missionaries did to the English. This book restores responsibility to the English themselves and, in particular, Kings AEthelbert, Edwin, Oswald, and Oswin, and it is their religious policies that form the focus of the text]. [Contents: Out of Africa: the nature of conversion; King AEthelberht: conversion in context; Differentiation, reinforcement and imperium: religion and dynasty, c. 616-33; Dynasty and cult: Bernician kings and the protection of God].
[Svendborg, Denmark] [Publication Year: 1997]
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