Augustine Sails to England
Chapter 1
Story Time, Episode 5. Goes with Story of the World, Volume 2, chapter 3 and chapter 8, section 1. About 4 minutes. Voices were made with ElevenLabs. The music box is played live by your browser. Turn Voices off to read the captions together at your own pace; each line still moves on by itself.
Where the facts come from
- Goes with Susan Wise Bauer, The Story of the World, Volume 2: The Middle Ages (Peace Hill Press), chapter 3 and chapter 8, section 1. The story here is our own telling.
- Gregory's mission, the monks' fear and Gregory's letter, King Ethelbert meeting them in the open air, Queen Bertha's church, and Canterbury: Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People (AD 731), book 1, chapters 23–33.
- Henry Mayr-Harting, The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England, 3rd ed. (Penn State University Press, 1991).
- Scripture: Matthew 28:19, King James Version.
- Made with: hand-written JavaScript on an HTML canvas; voices from ElevenLabs, including real child-character voices for the kids; music played live by the browser's Web Audio.