Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Saints and Missionaries of the Anglo-Saxon Era: Second Series
All Missionary enterprise suddenly ceased in England soon after the middle of the 8th century. Letters and learning perished also. For a hundred years and more few Saints are recorded in the annals of the Church, and little is told us of them. All this, no doubt, was caused by the ravages of the Danes who turned the country upside down, and destroyed the religious houses. With the Abbeys perished their libraries, their stores of mss., and other documents. The monks also, the chroni clers of their times were slain without mercy. The country, in consequence, sank into an abyss of ignorance. This we have named the Dark Period. Towards the close of the oth century a revival of letters and of religion took place. This was inaugurated by King Alfred, to whom we all owe a debt of infinite gratitude - and this must be our apology for introducing a memoir of him in this book of Saints.
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