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Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters - Essays in Honour of Nicholas Brooks (Hardcover, Festschrift)
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Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters - Essays in Honour of Nicholas Brooks (Hardcover, Festschrift)
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For more than forty years Nicholas Brooks has been at the forefront
of research into early medieval Britain. In order to honour the
achievements of one of the leading figures in Anglo-Saxon studies,
this volume brings together essays by an internationally renowned
group of scholars on four themes that the honorand has made his
own: myths, rulership, church and charters. Myth and rulership are
addressed in articles on the early history of Wessex, AthelflA|d of
Mercia and the battle of Brunanburh; contributions concerned with
charters explore the means for locating those hitherto lost, the
use of charters in the study of place-names, their role as
instruments of agricultural improvement, and the reasons for the
decline in their output immediately after the Norman Conquest.
Nicholas Brooks's long-standing interest in the church of
Canterbury is reflected in articles on the Kentish minster of
Reculver, which became a dependency of the church of Canterbury, on
the role of early tenth-century archbishops in developing
coronation ritual, and on the presentation of Archbishop Dunstan as
a prophet. Other contributions provide case studies of saints'
cults with regional and international dimensions, examining a mass
for St Birinus and dedications to St Clement, while several
contributions take a wider perspective, looking at later
interpretations of the Anglo-Saxon past, both in the Anglo-Norman
and more modern periods. This stimulating and wide-ranging
collection will be welcomed by the many readers who have benefited
from Nicholas Brooks's own work, or who have an interest in the
Anglo-Saxon past more generally. It is an outstanding contribution
to early medieval studies.
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