Christianity in Roman Britain to Ad 500

by Charles Thomas

hardback

Genres: Christianity

408 pages, Hardcover

First published February 26, 1981

About the author

Antony Charles Thomas, CBE, FSA is a Cornish historian and archaeologist who was Professor of Cornish Studies at Exeter University, and the first Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies, from 1971 until his retirement in 1991. He was recognised as a Bard of the Cornish Gorseth with the name Gwas Godhyan in 1953. He is also the former President of the Council for British Archaeology. He lives in his family home in Cornwall and is married to the crime writer Jessica Mann.

Reviews

[Flint Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had very little reason to call upon Professor Thomas' work during my studies, but I did carefully go through this book. Where other archeologists would stick to an established theory or interpretation, Thomas would state that theory and then go right into his own. Fearless, and as an established archeologist, meticulous. To understand the nature of communications and trade between the continent and Britain his work was invaluable. And in this, his broad overview of Christianity's development, I found no better source.