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St Cuthbert and the Normans - The Church of Durham, 1071-1153 (Hardcover)
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St Cuthbert and the Normans - The Church of Durham, 1071-1153 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
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An alternative view of the Conquest and settlement from north-east
England, charting relations between the monastic community and the
invading Normans. North-east England experienced the Norman
Conquest rather differently from the south of the country. This
account of events in Northumbria gives an important alternative
view of the Conquest and settlement, distinct from the moreusual
southern and court-centred evidence. A key factor in events was the
monastic community of St Cuthbert in Durham, which had survived the
political upheavals following the collapse of the Northumbrian
kingdom under Scandinavian pressure in the ninth century. Its
position thus strengthened, it occupied an influential place in the
factors ranged against the Normans, who recognised in the community
a powerful force for resistance. The history of the community
during the Anglo-Norman period is closely examined, particularly
the relationship between the new Norman bishops and the monastic
cathedral chapter and their respective rights and privileges. From
this detailed study, Dr Airdargues that conquest, in the north-east
at least, took a different, less traumatic form from that generally
assumed from the early twelfth-century description of the
reformation of the church in 1083. Throughout this account of
events in Durham in the years following the conquest, Dr Aird is
careful also to give due emphasis to relations with the Scots kings
of the later eleventh and twelfth centuries, and to the distinctive
nature of medieval Northumbriaand the Haliwerfolc in particular,
that region subject to the bishops of the Church. Dr WILLIAM M.
AIRD is Lecturer in History, School of History, Classics and
Archaeology, University of Edinburgh.
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