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Insular Religion? - Religion and Literature in Western England, 600–800. By Patrick Sims-Williams. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. 460. $65.00. - The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Anglo-Saxon England. By Mary Clayton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. 300. $59.50. - Saints and Relics in Anglo-Saxon England. By David Rollason. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989. Pp. 256. $39.95. - Isle of the Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland. By Lisa Bitel. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990. Pp. 280. $28.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

Patrick J. Geary
Patrick J. Geary*
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University of Florida
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , January 1993 , pp. 71 - 76
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Copyright © North American Conference of British Studies 1993

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1 Although Wilhelm Levison long ago attempted to dispel this image in his 1943 Ford Lectures published as England and the Continent in the Eighth Century (Oxford, 1946)Google Scholar.

2 For a recent summary, see Lauwers, Michel, “‘Religion populaire,’ culture folklorique, mentalités, notes pour une anthropologie culturelle du moyen age,” Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique 82 (1987): 221-–58Google Scholar.

3 Paxton, Frederick S., Christianizing Death: The Creation of a Ritual Process in Early Medieval Europe (Ithaca, N.Y., 1990)Google Scholar.

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