Civilizational patterns and regional features of the missionary work of Christian missionaries in Britain in the 1st through 6th centuries

The article analyzes the activities of early Christian missionaries from the perspective of cultural historical anthropology, based on the methodology developed by the representatives and followers of the “Annals School” (M. Bloch, L. Febvre, F. Braudel, J. Le Goff, J. Duby, E. Le Roy Ladurie, in Russia - A. Gurevich, S. Averintsev, and others). As one of the ways of understanding and interpreting the available information about the period of the early Christian mission in Britain, a spatio-temporal organization of information is proposed. An evaluation of the activities of early Christian missionaries is given on the basis of categories of the medieval world view, a representative of which was the missionary theologian, “a man of the Middle Ages”. As a result of the British missionary’s activities, novel features emerged: new types of human personality, civil society, and public consciousness. British monasteries and monasticism are postulated as the main institutions that formed a single Western European civilization, with its universal language of culture and a common axiological system