Routledge, Date: 2007. Paperback. Very Good. Former library book. Slightly creased cover. Edition 2007. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. 2007. Routledge ISBN 0582312132 9780582312135 [FR]

ISBN10: 0582312132, ISBN13: 9780582312135, [publisher: Taylor & Francis Jan 2001] Softcover Neuware - The great missionary figures were crucial to their own time and to posterity. They brought Christian belief and culture to the pagan societies of Dark Age Europe. Tribal and nomadic societies were propelled out of the forest and the plain into a 'civilised' world that carried the genes of the Roman imperial past. The missionaries were crucial too, because of the record they and their correspondents left of the cultures they transformed. The work of St Augustine in England is just one example. The missionaries were not only agents of change, they were also some of Europe's first historians. The christianisation of Western Europe is also a central feature of its history. The main outlines of the process are well known, but they are derived from historians and hagiographers who were rarely concerned with impartiality. This book takes account of the purposes of past history-writers, approaching the history of mission through a study of the authors of our sources. It shows that mission only became a main theme of historical writing in the eighth century, and much of what was written emerges as pious fiction or, sometimes, patent absurdity. As a result, early missionary activity has been misrepresented and undervalued. This book also studies the way in which missionaries wrote about their own difficulties in the field, bringing us as close as we can get ...
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ISBN10: 0582312132, ISBN13: 9780582312135, [publisher: Taylor & Francis Jan 2001] Softcover Neuware - The great missionary figures were crucial to their own time and to posterity. They brought Christian belief and culture to the pagan societies of Dark Age Europe. Tribal and nomadic societies were propelled out of the forest and the plain into a 'civilised' world that carried the genes of the Roman imperial past. The missionaries were crucial too, because of the record they and their correspondents left of the cultures they transformed. The work of St Augustine in England is just one example. The missionaries were not only agents of change, they were also some of Europe's first historians. The christianisation of Western Europe is also a central feature of its history. The main outlines of the process are well known, but they are derived from historians and hagiographers who were rarely concerned with impartiality. This book takes account of the purposes of past history-writers, approaching the history of mission through a study of the authors of our sources. It shows that mission only became a main theme of historical writing in the eighth century, and much of what was written emerges as pious fiction or, sometimes, patent absurdity. As a result, early missionary activity has been misrepresented and undervalued. This book also studies the way in which missionaries wrote about their own difficulties in the field, bringing us as close as we can get ...
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