Christianity, Literacy and Old English

By Belén Portillo
  • Period: 450 to 480

    First known written English

    "The she-wolf is a reward to my kinsman"
  • St. Augustine
    597

    St. Augustine

    brought Christianity to the pagan Anglosaxons
  • 601

    Agustine Archbishop of Canterbury

    Several great monasteries and centers of Learning particulary in Northumbria
  • 680

    Oldest surviving text of Old English

    Coedmon's Hymn

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