Bede

672-735

What did Bede have to say about the British as evangelicals?

What is the value of the correspondence from Pope Gregory to St. Augustine?

What is the value of the correspondence from Pope Gregory to Aethelberht of Kent?

What problems did the Roman missionaries encounter from British Christians?

Why did Gregory the Great send missionaries to convert the English?

How did Roman Christianity make its way to Northumbria?

What was the relationship between Augustine and the British bishops?

A. He was their unchallenged leader

B. Despite some hesitation, they followed him

C. They refused to cooperate with him

D. Communication around 600 was so bad that they did not even know about each other

What obstacles did the Roman missionaries face in their attempts to convert the pagan Anglo-Saxons?

A. Apostasy

B. Violent deaths of Christian kings

C. The unstable nature of authority among Germanic tribes

D. The rival customs of Celtic missionaries

E. All of the Above

How did Book 2 of Bede end?

A. With the excommunication of the Irish

B. With the Synod of Whitby

C. With a reversal for the Roman Church: the death of Edwin

D. All of the above

E. None of the above

Bede’s heroes in the second book include

A. Gregory the Great

B. Bishops: Augustine, Laurence and Paulinus

C. Edwin of Northumbria

D. None of the above

E. All of the Above

Christian Evangelism among the

English 550-700 CE

Gregory sends Monks

to convert the

English

Roman Tonsure

Augustine of

Canterbury

c. 600

Anglo-Saxon

Kingdoms 600s

Ethelbert of Kent

• Married Christian Bertha of the Franks

• Converted to Christianity after arrival of Augustine in 597

• Bretwalda• Produced first

vernacular legal code in England

Bertha of Kent

• Frankish princess who brought Christian faith with her when she married Ethelbert

• Inspired Augustine mission

• Established St Martins Canterbury

Anglo-Saxon

Kingdoms 600s

Raedwald

• East Anglian King• Baptized 605• Died 625• Induced to adopt

Christianity by Ethelbert of Kent

• Bretwalda• Both pagan and Christian• Buried at Sutton Hoo?

Sutton Hoo Burial Mask

Sutton Hoo Burial Mounds

Anglo-Saxon

Kingdoms 600s

Northumbrian BretwaldasOswald

d. 641Edwin584-632

Oswiud. 670

Yeavering - Northumbria

The Cuneus at Yeavering

Anglo-Saxon

Kingdoms c. 700

Bede

672-735

Augustine of

Canterbury

c. 600

Bede

672-735

Celtic Settlements

c. 200 BCE

Celtic Settlements c. 550 CE

Roman Tonsure

Layout of an Irish Monastery

The Proliferation of

Irish/Celtic Monasticism

500-800 CE

Celtic Monasteries in Britain:

Lindisfarne and Iona

Lindisfarne – Holy Island

The Lindisfarne

Gospels

c. 700 CE

Celtic Cross

Synod of Whitby - 664