The great missionary figures were crucial to their own time and to posterity. They brought Christian belief and culture to the pagan societies of Dark Age Europe. Not only agents of change, they were also some of Europe's finest historians, leaving a detailed record of the cultures they transformed. The work of St Augustine in England is just one example. Anyone who has read Ian Wood's equally ambitious and compelling survey The Missionary Life, will rediscover his ability to bring a remote age to life. The unreliable history of the missionary life is disentangled to produce a uniquely wide-ranging account - giving a sense of the individual experience and collective ethos of the mission, the missionaries' influence on communities and their links to the rest of Christendom.
- ISBN10 0582312124
- ISBN13 9780582312128
- Publish Date January 2001 (first published 31 January 2001)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 September 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Pearson Education Limited
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English