| Circle and The Cross: A Study in Continuity, The Circle Part 1 Contributor(s): Allcroft, A. Hadrian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0766176193 ISBN-13: 9780766176195 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $32.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2003 Annotation: Volume 1 of 2 - The Circle. The problem of finding the true origin of the word 'church' has drawn the author vastly further than he ever anticipated, for this origin would seem to go back far into the beginnings of European civilization, and there is as much to be said of the word's pagan as of its Christian history. Contents: Circular churchyard; Round Barrow; Evolution of the Sepulchral ring; Origin of the Sepulchral ring; Achean, Latin & Danish Moot; Circles of Aberdeenshire; Circus in Britain; Moot Circles of the British Isles; Date of the Stone Circles; Nordic Peoples; Druidism; Cimbri & Their Kindred; Mound Moot. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Antiquities & Archaeology - Religion | Christianity - History |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 8.25" W x 11" (1.92 lbs) 388 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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