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AccoSpoot t1_ir98voz wrote

What Francis Pryor says is that there was a cultural campaign by the papacy which encouraged Germanic culture and traits to expand into Britain during the early days of Christianity's spread, could well be that it piggybacked on Christian spread or that the Pope caused just enough initial basis for the Anglo-Saxon culture to take root.

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MagicRaptor OP t1_ira9pq1 wrote

That's really interesting. I wonder why the papacy would do that? How did that benefit them?

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AccoSpoot t1_iraa975 wrote

I can't quite find the source, but it was a couple of Angles were sold as slaves to the then pope, and he marvelled at their angellic appearance, and decided to shower praises and rewards upon them.

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