The accepting of other faiths thing I *think* is a bit difficult to gauge?
Once you get to about 1000-ish, fair enough, but before that, not so sure, because everything we have about the Dark Ages / early Middle ages comes so comprehensively filtered through the very dogmatic prejudice of the later medieval period.
Alfred the Great, for example, despite being considered a bit of a champion of Christianity and learning, I believe is supposed to have had quite an interest in earlier pagan learning as well? But we don't have his collection of pre-Christian works, because it was destroyed by... oh who was it? Athelstan, if I remember rightly.
(Alfred's pre-Christian literature collection is one of the things on my 'if I could just borrow your tardis for 5 mins' bucket list :-D )
I don't know about views of other faiths in the Roman-British tradition though. Maybe they were more picky earlier.
Artos in SAS is definitely very dubious about the Christian church hogging resources that he could be using for fighting Saxons, but I'm not sure how he feels about Christianity as a faith - I get the impression it's not something he would think about a lot. More Ambrosius's kind of thing maybe.
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Once you get to about 1000-ish, fair enough, but before that, not so sure, because everything we have about the Dark Ages / early Middle ages comes so comprehensively filtered through the very dogmatic prejudice of the later medieval period.
Alfred the Great, for example, despite being considered a bit of a champion of Christianity and learning, I believe is supposed to have had quite an interest in earlier pagan learning as well? But we don't have his collection of pre-Christian works, because it was destroyed by... oh who was it? Athelstan, if I remember rightly.
(Alfred's pre-Christian literature collection is one of the things on my 'if I could just borrow your tardis for 5 mins' bucket list :-D )
I don't know about views of other faiths in the Roman-British tradition though. Maybe they were more picky earlier.
Artos in SAS is definitely very dubious about the Christian church hogging resources that he could be using for fighting Saxons, but I'm not sure how he feels about Christianity as a faith - I get the impression it's not something he would think about a lot. More Ambrosius's kind of thing maybe.