1. Bede

2. 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?

3. How did Roman Christianity make its way to Northumbria?
Why did Gregory the Great send missionaries to convert the English?
What problems did the Roman missionaries encounter from British Christians?
How did Roman Christianity make its way to Northumbria?

4. What did you think of Bede’s story about why Gregory the Great sent missionaries to England?
What story?
It was cute, but I do not believe it.
Disturbing
It could well be true.

5. What was the relationship between Augustine and the British bishops?
He was their unchallenged leader
Despite some hesitation, they followed him
They refused to cooperate with him
Communication around 600 was so bad that they did not even know about each other

6. What obstacles did the Roman missionaries face in their attempts to convert the pagan Anglo-Saxons?
Apostasy
Violent deaths of Christian kings
The unstable nature of authority among Germanic tribes
The rival customs of Celtic missionaries
All of the Above

7. How did Book 2 of Bede end? With the excommunication of the Irish
With the Synod of Whitby
With a reversal for the Roman Church: the death of Edwin
All of the above
None of the above

8. Bede’s heroes in the second book include
Gregory the Great
Bishops: Augustine, Laurence and Paulinus
Edwin of Northumbria
None of the above
All of the Above

9. Christian Evangelism among the English 550-700 CE

10. Gregory sends Monks to convert the English

11. Roman Tonsure

12. Augustine of Canterbury c. 600

13. Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms 600s

14. 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

15. Bertha of Kent
Frankish princess who brought Christian faith with her when she married Ethelbert
Inspired Augustine mission
Established St Martins Canterbury

16. Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms 600s

17. 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?

18. Sutton Hoo Burial Mask

19. Sutton Hoo Burial Mounds

20. Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms 600s

21. Northumbrian Bretwaldas
Oswald
d. 641
Oswiu
d. 670
Edwin

22. Yeavering - Northumbria

23. The Cuneus at Yeavering

24. Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms c. 700

25. Bede

26. Christian Evangelism among the English 550-700 CE

27. Celtic Settlements c. 200 BCE

28. Celtic Settlements c. 550 CE

29. Roman Tonsure

30. Layout of an Irish Monastery

31. The Proliferation of Irish/Celtic Monasticism 500-800 CE

32. Celtic Monasteries in Britain: Lindisfarne and Iona

33. Lindisfarne – Holy Island

34. The Lindisfarne Gospels c. 700 CE

35. Celtic Cross

36. Synod of Whitby - 664