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Mayr-Harting, Henry Maria Robert Egmont was born on April 6, 1936 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Son of Herbert and Anna Mayr-Harting.
( The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England is mo...)
The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England is more than a general account of the conversion of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. It is a probing study of the way in which Christianity was fashioned in England, giving full weight to the variety of wealth of the traditions that contributed to early Anglo-Saxon Christianity. It is also a study in the process of Christianization, as it was carried out by churchmen who, according to Mayr-Harting, prepared themselves by prayer and study and travel as well as by social awareness to Christianize their world. For this edition, the author has added a new preface in which he reconsiders some of his earlier conclusions and addresses recent developments in the scholarship. In a completely new chapter, Mayr-Harting appraises the work of Boniface of Devon, the greatest missionary of the early Middle Ages whom he calls the "Mirror of English History." Mayr-Harting thereby extends his account of early Anglo-Saxon Christianity from the Gregorian mission of the late sixth century up to the eighth-century English mission to the Continent, perhaps the crowning achievement of early English history.
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Mayr-Harting, Henry Maria Robert Egmont was born on April 6, 1936 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Son of Herbert and Anna Mayr-Harting.
Bachelor, Oxford (England) University, 1957. Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford (England) University, 1961. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Lawrence University, 1998.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), University of South, 1999.
Assistant lecturer in medieval history University Liverpool, England, 1960-1963, lecturer in medieval history England, 1963-1968. Fellow, tutor St. Peter's College, Oxford, 1968-1997, emeritus fellow, since 1997. Reguns professor ecclesiastical history University Oxford, 1997—2003.
Visiting fellow Peterhouse, Cambridge, England, 1983. Brown Foundation fellow University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, 1992. Lay canon of Christ Church, Oxford, 1997-2003.
( The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England is mo...)
Married Caroline Henry, 1968. Children: Felix, Ursula.