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407 Romans withdraw from Britain Celts - Britons Anglo-Saxons

407 Romans withdraw from Britain Celts - Britons Anglo-Saxons. Map Link: Roman Britain about 410: < http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/ roman_britain.jpg > Map Link: Britain about 600: < http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/

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407 Romans withdraw from Britain Celts - Britons Anglo-Saxons

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  1. 407 Romans withdraw from Britain Celts - Britons Anglo-Saxons Map Link: Roman Britain about 410: <http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/ roman_britain.jpg> Map Link: Britain about 600: <http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/ britain_settlement_600_1923.jpg>

  2. 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 in England, converts King Aethelbert of Kent, establishes monastery at Canterbury

  3. Map Link: British Isles about 802: <http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/ british_isles_802.jpg>

  4. 617-33 Reign of Edwin, King of Northumbria, who is married to Aethelberga, daughter of Aethelbert 625 Edwin converted to Christianity through influence of wife and Paulinus 633 Conquest of Northumbria by Penda, pagan King of Mercia

  5. St Patrick (c. 390-461) From W. England. Captured by Irish raiders, slave for several years Escaped to Gaul, studied at various monasteries c. 432 Returned to Ireland as bishop

  6. 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 of Bobbio, c. 530-615)

  7. 634 Oswald drives out Penda, retakes Northumbria. Brings in Aidan (d. 651), who founds monastery of Lindisfarne 643 Penda kills Oswald in battle. Power passes to Oswy (r. 643-70) 656 Oswy kills Penda 664 Synod of Whitby Eanfled Wilfred Colman

  8. 669 Pope sends Theodore of Tarsus to be new Archbishop of Canterbury. Accompanied by Hadrian (founder of school at Canterbury) and Benedict Biscop (628-90, founder of monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow) Northumbrian/Anglo-Saxon Renaissance

  9. The Venerable Bede (672/73-735) Oblate, spent most of life at Wearmouth and Jarrow Wrote wide range of works Ecclesiastical History of the English People

  10. Beowulf: Old English First written down in present form c. 700

  11. Other vernacular works: First collection of Germanic law (Kent) Anglo-Saxon devotional poetry (Caedmon, Cynewulf) Role of women, e.g. Hild (614-80), Abbess of Whitby (“double monastery”), founder, teacher

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