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Liturgy and the Ecclesiastical History of Late Anglo-Saxon England - Four Studies (Hardcover)
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Liturgy and the Ecclesiastical History of Late Anglo-Saxon England - Four Studies (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Anglo-Saxon History
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Study of surviving Anglo-Saxon kalendars and pontificals
contributes to our understanding of 10th-century England. `His work
demonstrates the importance of these neglected sources for our
understanding of the late Old English church.' HISTORY An important
book of immense erudition. It brings into the open some major
issues of Late Anglo-Saxon history, and gives a thorough overview
of the detailed source material. When such outstanding learning is
being used, through intuitive perception, to bear on the wider
issues such as popular devotion and the reception of the monastic
reform in England, and bold conclusions are bing drawn from such
minutely detailed studies, there is no doubt that David Dumville's
contribution in this area of study becomes invaluable. The sources
for the liturgy of late Anglo-Saxon England have a distinctive
shape. Very substantial survival has given us the possibility of
understanding change and perceiving significant continuity, as well
as identifying local preferences and peculiarities. One major
category of evidence is provided by a corpus of more than twenty
kalendars: some of these (and particularly those which have been
associated with Glastonbury Abbey) are subjected to close
examination here, the process contributing both negatively and
positively to the history of ecclesiastical renewal in the 10th
century. Another significant body of manuscripts comprises books
for episcopal use, especially pontificals: these are examined here
as a group, and their associations with specific prelates and
churches considered. All these investigations tend to suggest the
centrality of the church of Canterbury in the surviving testimony
and presumptively therefore in the history of late Anglo-Saxon
christianity. Historians' study of English liturgy in this period
has heretofore concentrated on the development of coronation-rites:
by pursuing palaeographical and textual enquiries, the author
hassought to make other divisions of the subject respond to
historical questioning. Dr DAVID N. DUMVILLE is Reader in the Early
Mediaeval History and Culture of the British Isles at the
University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Girton College.
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