Alcuin, Adrian, and the Martyrs: A Triptych of English Catholic Civilization maternal grandparents of Jesus Christ

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Alcuin, Adrian, and the Martyrs: A Triptych of English Catholic Civilization maternal grandparents of Jesus ChristThis volume gathers three portraits from that vanished civilization: Alcuin of York, the Benedictine scholar who helped shape the mind of Christendom; Pope Adrian IV, the only Englishman to ascend the Chair of Peter; and the Elizabethan martyrs, whose blood consecrated a land already in ruin. All are men formed by a world in which the Faith governed law, language, and kingship. With selections from E. M. Wilmot Buxton, Richard Raby, and Dom Bede Camm,