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... Secular v . Regular - Dunstan's Administration - The Danish Conquest - Anglo - Saxon Archi- tecture - The English Restoration- Genealogical Table ... 114 PART III . The Church in Mediæval Britain . CHAPTER CONTENTS .
... Secular v . Regular - Dunstan's Administration - The Danish Conquest - Anglo - Saxon Archi- tecture - The English Restoration- Genealogical Table ... 114 PART III . The Church in Mediæval Britain . CHAPTER CONTENTS .
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... secular hands . Through the enterprise of munificent churchmen , the abbey buildings have been recently restored to religious uses as a habitation for St. Augustine's missionary college . It is idle to speculate on what would have ...
... secular hands . Through the enterprise of munificent churchmen , the abbey buildings have been recently restored to religious uses as a habitation for St. Augustine's missionary college . It is idle to speculate on what would have ...
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... secular affairs of the country were most favourable to their purpose . " Never at all , " says Bede , " from the time that the Angles directed their course to Britain , were there happier times , for , having most brave and Christian ...
... secular affairs of the country were most favourable to their purpose . " Never at all , " says Bede , " from the time that the Angles directed their course to Britain , were there happier times , for , having most brave and Christian ...
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... secular affairs , and spend the rest of their days in retirement , and their possessions in erecting monasteries . Many noblemen and HEXHAM ABBEY . ladies gave themselves up , and everything they possessed , for religious uses at his ...
... secular affairs , and spend the rest of their days in retirement , and their possessions in erecting monasteries . Many noblemen and HEXHAM ABBEY . ladies gave themselves up , and everything they possessed , for religious uses at his ...
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... secular purposes , but in 1857 it was recovered to the Church , and is now used daily for public worship . It is the most perfect Saxon stone - building extant , and is a very precious relic of the early days of Christianity in the ...
... secular purposes , but in 1857 it was recovered to the Church , and is now used daily for public worship . It is the most perfect Saxon stone - building extant , and is a very precious relic of the early days of Christianity in the ...
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Abbey abbot Alfred ancient Anglo-Saxon Anselm appointed archbishop of Canterbury archbishop of York Augustine barons battle became Becket Bede benefices Britain British Church Britons built called canons Canterbury Cathedral Caratacus Cathedral Celtic century chief Christ Christian claimed clergy Cloth boards Conqueror Conquest consecrated council court Crown Crusades Danes death declared died diocese Dunstan East Anglia ecclesiastical Edward English Church estates Ethelbert Ethelred excommunicated Faith favour Fcap Gaul Gregory Grossetête heathen Henry Holy honour influence John Kent king king's kingdom land Lanfranc Langton legate Lindisfarne lived London Mercia mission missionaries monasteries monastic monks nobles Norman Normandy Northumbria Oswy papacy papal Paulinus persons pope pope's preach prelates priest princes province refused reign religious Roman saints Saxon Scots secular sent soon spiritual Stephen Langton supremacy synod Teutonic Theodore tribes Wales Welsh Wessex Wilfrid William Rufus William the Conqueror Winchester Witan worship Wycliffe York
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Page 119 - A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
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Page 55 - Augustine, is said, in a threatening manner, to have foretold, that in case they would not join in unity with their brethren, they should be warred upon by their enemies ; and, if they would not preach the way of life to the English nation, they should at their hands undergo the vengeance of death.
Page 46 - Then repairing to the bishop of the Roman apostolical see, (for he was not himself then made pope,) he entreated him to send some ministers of the word into Britain to the nation of the English, by whom it might be converted to Christ...