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Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland
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Patrick Wormald was a brilliant interpreter of the Early Middle
Ages, whose teaching, writings and generous friendship inspired a
generation of historians and students of politics, law, language,
literature and religion to focus their attention upon the world of
the Anglo-Saxons and the Franks. Leading British, American and
continental scholars - his colleagues, friends and pupils - here
bear witness to his seminal influence by presenting a collection of
studies devoted to the key themes that dominated his work:
kingship; law and society; ethnic, religious, national and
linguistic identities; the power of images, pictorial or poetic, in
shaping political and religious institutions. Closely mirroring the
interests of their honorand, the collection not only underlines
Patrick Wormald's enormous contribution to the field of Anglo-Saxon
studies, but graphically demonstrates his belief that early
medieval England and Anglo-Saxon law could only be understood
against a background of research into contemporary developments in
the nearby Welsh, Scottish, Irish and Frankish kingdoms. He would
have been well pleased, therefore, that this volume should make
such significant advances in our understanding of the world of
Bede, of the dynasty of King Alfred, and also of the workings of
English law between the seventh and the twelfth century. Moreover
he would have been particularly delighted at the rich comparisons
and contrasts with Celtic societies offered here and with the
series of fundamental reassessments of aspects of Carolingian
Francia. Above all these studies present fundamental
reinterpretations, not only of published written sources and their
underlying manuscript evidence, but also of the development of some
of the dominant ideas of that era. In both their scope and the
quality of the scholarship, the collection stands as a fitting
tribute to the work and life of Patrick Wormald and his lasting
contribution to early medieval studies.
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