The Missionary Life: Saints and the Evangelisation of Europe 400-1050

by Ian N. Wood

Book Overview

The great missionary figures were crucial to their own time and to posterity. They brought Christian belief and culture to the pagan societies of Dark Age Europe. Not only agents of change, they were also some of Europe's finest historians, leaving a detailed record of the cultures they transformed. The work of St Augustine in England is just one example. Anyone who has read Ian Wood's equally ambitious and compelling survey The Missionary Life, will...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582312132
• ISBN13: 9780582312135
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"