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The consecration of the third Cluny Abbey by Pope Urban II [1]. By the 10th century, Christianity had spread throughout much of Europe and Asia. The Church in England was becoming well established, with its scholarly monasteries, and the Roman Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church were continuing their separation, ultimately culminating in the Great Schism.
In the sixth century, Bertha of Kent was instrumental to the establishment of Christianity in the region. [ 14 ] Bede records that the wife of Raedwald , leader of the East Angles in the seventh century who was possibly buried in Mound 1 at Sutton Hoo , played a role in keeping pagan belief at court, and her influence may be evident in the ...
By the 21st century there were more Anglicans in Nigeria than in England, and they were culturally and theologically much more conservative. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] Missionaries increasingly came to focus on education, medical help, and long-term modernisation of the native personality to inculcate European middle-class values.
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Women in Church history have played a variety of roles in the life of Christianity—notably as contemplatives, health care givers, educationalists and missionaries. Until recent times, women were generally excluded from episcopal and clerical positions within the certain Christian churches; however, great numbers of women have been influential in the life of the church, from contemporaries of ...
[171] [172] Despite some exposure to Christianity throughout the 9th century from missionaries and traders, the kings in Scandinavia only began to convert around the mid 10th century and most of the settlers in England practised Nordic forms of Germanic paganism that had important links and similarities with traditional Anglo-Saxons practices.
The Norse settlers in England were converted relatively quickly, assimilating their beliefs into Christianity in the decades following the occupation of York, of which the Archbishop had survived. The process was largely complete by the early tenth century and enabled England's leading churchmen to negotiate with the warlords.
Nicholas Brooks describes Dunstan as "the ablest and best loved figure that tenth-century England produced", and observes that his "example helped to inspire a massive transfer of landed resources from the secular aristocracy to the religious aristocracy; it made possible a revival of scholarly, religious, pastoral and cultural standards in ...