Excerpt from Syllabus of a Course of Six Lectures on Early English Literature: Beowulf to Faerie Queene, 400-1600 A. D Introduction of Christianity, 596 A. D. Pope Gregory and the Angles in slave market at Rome. Kent first Christianized. King Edwin (633 A. D.) of Northumbria holds council to discuss new religion. The Alderman and the Sparrow Such is Life. Character shown in this story. Effects of Christianity on English mind. Culdees. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.