Christianity amongst the Britons, Dalriadan Irish and Picts

Type:

Book Chapter

Author:

Clare Stancliffe

Published:

2005

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

This chapter examines the evidence that prompted the original theory, and reconsiders that for Christianity in sub-Roman and early medieval Britain, giving special attention to northern and western Britain. Continuity of Roman Christianity and its spread west and north is indicated by Patrick's writings. Our knowledge of Britain in the sixth century depends to a considerable extent upon the writings of a single author, Gildas. It is highly likely that monasticism reached Britain from Gaul at the end of the fourth. While in the east Christianity was spreading up from the Britons between the Walls to the Picts north of the Forth, in the west the Irish colony of DálRiada was gaining a major Christian focus with the foundation of the monastery of Iona. The surviving evidence of literary works, manuscripts and stone carving reveals Iona as one of the major literary.

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