How did Christianity influence the AngloSaxon culture

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How did Christianity influence the Anglo-Saxon
culture?
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The Anglo-Saxon bible

• The translations were from the Vulgate which was
  written in Latin
• only educated members of the clergy were able to
  have and get the bible.
• The bible went from Latin to Old English
• Translators were uncertain about the limits of
  the bible.
• Many of the monks and priests who could read only
  saw single books and extracts from the bible
• Religious leaders would rely on
• Commentaries

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Christ in Anglo-Saxon Art

• The most portrayals of Christ in Anglo-Saxon art
  was the crucifixion, the Lord enthroned, and the
  Virgin and child.
• The images were found in manuscripts as well as
  in materials such as ivory, stone, wood, and
  metal.

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Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England

• Many women Saints were very powerful during their
• lifetime.
• Over half the women Saints were royal church
  leaders.
• The rest derive their sainthood.
• A woman who married into court became the
  diplomat
• between that and her homeland
• The widows of royal court transferred these
• Diplomatic skills to a similar role in the
  monastic
• institution.

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Anglo-Saxon Martyrs

• In Christian terminology a martyr is some one who
  a follower of Jesus Christ willingly suffering
  death for him.
• Many yearly martyrs were ultimately recognized as
  saints.
• Some martyrs canonized as saints were King
  Edmund, King Oswald of Northambira, and the
  missionary Boniface of crediton
• King Edward and Bishop Alphege were both
  considerd martyrs and canonized as saints but did
  not end their lives suffering for Christ.
• Martyrs were also any one who died an unjust death

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Their Work Cited

• Cohn, Norman. The Pursuit of the Millenium
  Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical
  Anarchists of the Middle Ages. New York Secker
  Warburg, 1957.
• Fell, Christine. "Perceptions of transience."
  Malcolm Godden and Michael Lapidge, eds. The
  Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature.
  Cambridge Cambridge UP, 1991. 172-189.
• Kermode, Frank. The Sense of an Ending Studies
  in the Theory of Fiction. 1966. New York Oxford
  UP, 2000.
• Trahern, Joseph B. Jr. "Fatalism and the
  millenium." Malcolm Godden and Michael Lapidge,
  eds. The Cambridge Companion to Old English
  Literature. Cambridge Cambridge UP, 1991.
  160-171.

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Work Cited

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