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Caring for Body and Soul: Burial and the Afterlife in the Merovingian World
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The article was published on 2002-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 89 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Soul & Afterlife.read more
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Beyond empire II: Christianities of the Celtic peoples
TL;DR: In this paper, the inheritance of the Celtic peoples are defined as those which still, in 600 CE, spoke a Celtic language and the continental Celts of antiquity are excluded, leaving only the Britons, who inherited their Christianity from Roman Britain, the Irish, who received theirs mainly from the Britons in the fifth and early sixth centuries, and the Picts.
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Christianisation and the dissemination of Christian teaching
TL;DR: The use of force in evangelisation during the early Middle Ages is the Christianisation of the Saxons, which came to be intimately related to their conquest during the reign of Charlemagne as discussed by the authors.
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Eastern Empire in the sixth century.
TL;DR: Anastasius, the Roman Empire in the beginning of the sixth century, inherited, and promoted, religious divisions that were to cast a long shadow over the Christian Roman or Byzantine Empire.
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Introduction: Christendom, c. 600
TL;DR: The Kingdom and the kingdoms A little after 680 CE, Julian, bishop of Toledo, the capital of the Visigothic kingdom of Spain, was challenged to answer a constant objection made by the Jews against Christianity.