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After 380, Christianity was the official religion of the Roman Empire.The church in Roman Britain was overseen by a hierarchy of bishops and priests.Many existing pagan shrines were converted to Christian use and few pagan sites still operated by the fifth century. [1]
Later medieval legends concerning the conversion of the island under King Lucius [8] or from a mission by Philip the Apostle [10] or Joseph of Arimathea [note 1] have been discredited as "pious forgeries" attempting to establish independence [12] or seniority [11] in the ecclesiastical hierarchy of Norman times. The first archaeological ...
Heresy had been seen as a recurring problem for the medieval Church since the burning of heretics at Orlèans in 1022. [19] The main tool used by the inquisitors was interrogation that often featured the use of torture followed by having heretics burned at the stake. After about a century this first medieval inquisition came to a conclusion.
An important aspect in the practice of medieval Christianity was the veneration of saints, and the associated pilgrimages to places where the relics of a particular saint were interred and the saint's tradition honoured. The possession of the relics of a popular saint was a source of funds to the individual church as the faithful made donations ...
England in the Middle Ages concerns the history of England during the medieval period, from the end of the 5th century through to the start of the early modern period in 1485. When England emerged from the collapse of the Roman Empire, the economy was in tatters and many of the towns abandoned. After several centuries of Germanic immigration ...
Pages in category "Christianity in medieval England" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England was the process starting in the late 6th century by which population of England formerly adhering to the Anglo-Saxon, and later Nordic, forms of Germanic paganism converted to Christianity and adopted Christian worldviews.
A cult of saints played a key part within Anglo-Saxon Christianity, a form of Roman Catholicism practised in Anglo-Saxon England from the late sixth to the mid eleventh century. Ecclesiastical authors produced hagiographies of many of these saints. These texts were aimed largely at an ecclesiastical audience, although some were also aimed at ...