At first glance the title of this book might seem a touch chauvinistic, but once you begin reading it you begin to see what the author is getting at.
Bijam Omrani is a classicist and ancient historian who taught at Eton College and Westminster School and now is a research fellow at Exeter University. He is also a church warden in a rural Church of England parish. That parochial context very much shapes the book. For it is like one of those old churches one comes across in countless villages and towns across the country that embody a vast amount of history and religion going back to Anglo-Saxon times.
In the first section of 12 chapters Omrani looks at what various aspects of English life owe to Christianity. So, he shows how Christianity has shaped law, education, government, landscape, singing, art and architecture, literature, and much more.
