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So far, so great. The detail the author goes into regarding the arrival of the first monks with St Augustine and the description of the Anglo Saxons is incredible.

'Mirrors of the Blessed'

A survey and description of the ways in which Christianity informed and influenced English art from the introduction of biblical imagery after Augustine, through to its pre-Reformation zenith; the persistence of Christian imagery through the iconoclasm of the Dissolution; its renaissance in c17th/18th/19th & its subtle influence melded with the impact of WW1/2 into the 20th century.

'Angel's Wit and Singular Learning'

On the recovery of libraries after decline of Roman institutions; Aldhelm, Alcuin, et al.; covers education and schooling in Anglo-Saxon period w/ monastic schools, grammar schools & chantry schools which took in poor & wealthy; describes rise of universities post-Conquest through to Reformation along w/ parish schools; 'fides quaerens intellectum' - St. Anselm's 'Proslogion'

'Teach Me Thy Laws'

"If, as contemporary judges have said, Christianity is no longer a part of English law, it still remains, to a great extent, its parent."

Influence of Old Testament Kings on the role of medieval Kings as administrators of justice in law codification b/w c8th-c11th; biblical scholarship & Common Law; rise of Cannon Law through Middle Ages up to 20th C; influence of scripture on English Courts

'The Land of Angels'

Contextualises the concept of kingship in post-Roman Britain; introduces the developing relationship between Roman Christian Church and Anglo-Saxon England after the Gregorian Mission to Kent in 597; role of the 'King' as pious/divine after conversion of Aethelberht (597-601) up to age of the Venerable Bede (731-735)