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Bishop AEthelwold, his Followers, and Saints' Cults in Early Medieval England - Power, Belief, and Religious Reform (Hardcover)
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Bishop AEthelwold, his Followers, and Saints' Cults in Early Medieval England - Power, Belief, and Religious Reform (Hardcover)
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies
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An exploration of how AEthelwold and those he influenced deployed
the promotion of saints to implement religious reform. Bishop
AEthelwold of Winchester and his associates were some of the most
radical monastic reformers in tenth-century Europe. In two
generations, they took over most of the powerful churches in the
kingdom of England and implemented a number of the policies found
in their ambitious monastic manifestos. They also had a major
impact on the early development of the kingdom itself, taking a
role in the establishment of a shire system that lasted a thousand
years, negotiations with invaders, and attempts to create a
standardized English language. AEthelwold and his circle were also
enthusiastic venerators of saints. This book examines a range of
sources, from hagiographies to charters, from liturgy to
archaeological remains, to argue that saints' cults helped these
men and women secure their power, wealth, and relationships with
groups outside their monasteries. The saints that AEthelwold's
circle promoted most lavishly were not necessarily the ones that
they studied or the ones that matched their ideological agenda.
Rather, AEthelwold's monks and nuns connected themselves to a wide
range of saints, including the Virgin Mary, St Swithun,
AEthelthryth of Ely, Iudoc, Grimbald, Botulf, Cuthbert, and many
others. Venerating these saints helped AEthelwold and his followers
appeal to other groups in society, including unreformed
ecclesiastics, lay nobles, and the workers on their estates. This
book therefore not only has implications for the study of early
English history and literature, but also for the history of western
European monasticism and saints' cults more generally.
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