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The Adoption Of Christianity By Anglo-saxons Pagans

The decisive shift to Christianity occurred in 655 when King Penda was slain in the Battle of the Winwaed and Mercia became officially Christian for the first time. In the end, it was the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Roman Christianity that incorporated the British Isles within the religious, political, and economic structures of European Christendom

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      The Christianization of Anglo-Saxon England

      The Christianization of Anglo-Saxon England

      When the Anglo-Saxons inhabited Britain, they brought with them Germanic paganism. The story of the conversion of the Saxons to Christianity is one …

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