407 romans withdraw from britain celts - britons anglo-saxons
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407 Romans withdraw from Britain Celts - Britons Anglo-Saxons. End 6th c. Anglo-Saxons dominant in England 596 Pope Gregory the Great sends mission to England Angles - angels Deira - de ira dei Aelle - Alleluia 597 Augustine (of Canterbury, d. 605) arrives - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
407 Romans withdraw from Britain
Celts - Britons
Anglo-Saxons
End 6th c. Anglo-Saxons dominant in England
596 Pope Gregory the Great sends mission toEngland
Angles - angels
Deira - de ira dei Aelle - Alleluia
597 Augustine (of Canterbury, d. 605) arrivesin England, converts King Aethelbert ofKent, establishes monastery at Canterbury
617-33 Reign of Edwin, King of Northumbria,who is married to Aethelberga, daughterof Aethelbert
625 Edwin converted to Christianity throughinfluence of wife and Paulinus
633 Conquest of Northumbria by Penda, paganKing of Mercia
St Patrick (c. 390-461)
From W. England. Capturedby Irish raiders, slavefor several years
Escaped to Gaul, studied atvarious monasteries
c. 432 Returned to Ireland asbishop
Irish/Celtic Christianity
Monasteries as basic units of organisation
Ascetic lifestyle of monks
Devotion to learning
Self-exile as religious observance (St Columba(521-97), St Columbanus (founder ofBobbio, c. 530-615)
634 Oswald drives out Penda, retakesNorthumbria. Brings in Aidan (d. 651),who founds monastery of Lindisfarne
643 Penda kills Oswald in battle. Power passesto Oswy (r. 643-70)
656 Oswy kills Penda
664 Synod of Whitby
Eanfled Wilfred Colman
669 Pope sends Theodore of Tarsus to be newArchbishop of Canterbury. Accompaniedby Hadrian (founder of school atCanterbury) and Benedict Biscop (628-90,founder of monasteries of Wearmouth andJarrow)
Northumbrian/Anglo-Saxon Renaissance
The Venerable Bede (672/73-735)
Oblate, spent most of life at Wearmouthand Jarrow
Wrote wide range of works
Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Beowulf:
Old English
First written down in present formc. 700
Other vernacular works:
First collection of Germanic law (Kent)
Anglo-Saxon devotional poetry(Caedmon, Cynewulf)
Role of women, e.g. Hild (614-80), Abbessof Whitby (“double monastery”),founder, teacher