The Early Church in Wales and the West
Title | The Early Church in Wales and the West PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy Edwards |
Publisher | Oxbow Books Limited |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | History |
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Contains 15 papers describing recent work in early Christian archaeology, history and place-names based on papers presented at a conference at Cardiff in 1989. Among the topics discussee are: the archaeology of the early Church in Wales; the myth of the Celtic Church; and the early Irish Church.
A New History of the Church in Wales
Title | A New History of the Church in Wales PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Doe |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 393 |
Release | 2020-03-05 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1108499570 |
Marks the centenary of the Church in Wales and critically assesses landmarks in its evolution.
Early Christianity in South-West Britain
Title | Early Christianity in South-West Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Rees |
Publisher | Oxbow Books |
Pages | 553 |
Release | 2020-03-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1911188569 |
This book offers a new assessment of early Christianity in south-west Britain from the fourth to the tenth centuries, a rich period which includes the transition from Roman to native British to Saxon models of church. The book will be based on evidence from archaeological excavations, early texts and recent critical scholarship and cover Wessex, Devon and Cornwall. In the south-west, Wessex provides the greatest evidence of Roman Christianity. The fifth-century Dorset villas of Frampton and Hinton St Mary, with their complex baptistery mosaics, indicate the presence of sophisticated Christian house churches. The fact that these two Roman villas are only 15 miles apart suggests a network of small Christian communities in this region. The author uses evidence from St Patrick’s fifth-century ‘Confessions’ to describe how members of a villa house church lived. Wessex was slowly Christianised: in Gloucestershire, the pagan healing sanctuary at Chedworth provides evidence of later use as a Christian baptistery; at Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire, a baptistery was dug into the mosaic floor of an imposing villa, which may by then have been owned by a bishop. In Somerset a number of recently excavated sites demonstrate the transition from a pagan temple to a Christian church. Beside the pagan temple at Lamyatt, later female burials suggest, unusually, a small monastic group of women. Wells cathedral grew beside the site of a Roman villa’s funeral chapel. In Street, a large oval enclosure indicates the probable site of a ‘Celtic’ monastery. Early Christian cemeteries have been excavated at Shepton Mallet and elsewhere. Lundy Island, off the Devon coast, provides evidence of a Celtic monastery, with its inscribed stones that commemorate early monks. At Exeter, a Saxon anthology includes numerous riddles, one of which describes in detail the production of an illuminated manuscript in a south-western monastery. Oliver Padel’s meticulous documentation of Cornish place-names has demonstrated that, of all the Celtic regions, Cornwall has by far the highest number of dedications to a single, otherwise unknown individual, typically consisting of a small church and a farm by the sea. These small monastic ‘cells’ have hitherto received little attention as a model of church in early British Christianity, and the latter part of the text focuses on various aspects of this model, as lived out in coastal and in upland settlements, on islands, and in relation to larger Breton monasteries. Study of 60 Breton sites has demonstrated possible connections between larger Breton monasteries and smaller Cornish cells.
A History of Christianity in Wales
Title | A History of Christianity in Wales PDF eBook |
Author | David Ceri Jones |
Publisher | University of Wales Press |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2022-02-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1786838222 |
Christianity, in its Catholic, Protestant and Nonconformist forms, has played an enormous role in the history of Wales and in the defining and shaping of Welsh identity over the past two thousand years. Biblical place names, an urban and rural landscape littered with churches, chapels, crosses and sacred sites, a bardic and literary tradition deeply imbued with Christian themes in both the Welsh and English languages, and the songs sung by tens of thousands of rugby supporters at the national stadium in Cardiff, all hint at a Christian presence that was once universal. Yet for many in contemporary Wales, the story of the development of Christianity in their country remains little known. While the history of Christianity in Wales has been a subject of perennial interest for Welsh historians, much of their work has been highly specialised and not always accessible to a general audience. Standing on the shoulders of some of Wales’s finest historians, this is the first single-volume history of Welsh Christianity from its origins in Roman Britain to the present day. Drawing on the expertise of four leading historians of the Welsh Christian tradition, this volume is specifically designed for the general reader, and those beginning their exploration of Wales’s Christian past.
A History of the Church of the Cymry
Title | A History of the Church of the Cymry PDF eBook |
Author | William Hughes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | Wales |
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The Archaeology of the Early Medieval Celtic Churches: No. 29
Title | The Archaeology of the Early Medieval Celtic Churches: No. 29 PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy Edwards |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 753 |
Release | 2017-10-23 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1351546570 |
This volume focuses on new research on the archaeology of the early medieval Celtic churches c AD 400-1100 in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, south-west Britain and Brittany. The 21 papers use a variety of approaches to explore and analyse the archaeological evidence for the origins and development of the Church in these areas. The results of a recent multi-disciplinary research project to identify the archaeology of the early medieval church in different regions of Wales are considered alongside other new research and the discoveries made in excavations in both Wales and beyond. The papers reveal not only aspects of the archaeology of ecclesiastical landscapes with their monasteries, churches and cemeteries, but also special graves, relics, craftworking and the economy enabling both comparisons and contrasts. They likewise engage with ongoing debates concerning interpretation: historiography and the concept of the Celtic Church, conversion to Christianity, Christianization of the landscape and the changing functions and inter-relationships of sites, the development of saints cults, sacred space and pilgrimage landscapes and the origins of the monastic town .
The Early Medieval Church in Wales
Title | The Early Medieval Church in Wales PDF eBook |
Author | Dr. David Petts |
Publisher | History Press (SC) |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2014-05-14 |
Genre | RELIGION |
ISBN | 9780752498232 |
An exploration of the history and archaeology of the Christian Church in Wales