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First published in 1998, this valuable reference work offers
concise, expert answers to questions on all aspects of life and
culture in Medieval England, including art, architecture, law,
literature, kings, women, music, commerce, technology, warfare and
religion. This wide-ranging text encompasses English social,
cultural, and political life from the Anglo-Saxon invasions in the
fifth century to the turn of the sixteenth century, as well as its
ties to the Celtic world of Wales, Scotland and Ireland, the French
and Anglo-Norman world of the Continent and the Viking and
Scandinavian world of the North Sea. A range of topics are
discussed from Sedulius to Skelton, from Wulfstan of York to
Reginald Pecock, from Pictish art to Gothic sculpture and from the
Vikings to the Black Death. A subject and name index makes it easy
to locate information and bibliographies direct users to essential
primary and secondary sources as well as key scholarship. With more
than 700 entries by over 300 international scholars, this work
provides a detailed portrait of the English Middle Ages and will be
of great value to students and scholars studying Medieval history
in England and Europe, as well as non-specialist readers.
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.
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.
First published in 1998, this valuable reference work offers
concise, expert answers to questions on all aspects of life and
culture in Medieval England, including art, architecture, law,
literature, kings, women, music, commerce, technology, warfare and
religion. This wide-ranging text encompasses English social,
cultural, and political life from the Anglo-Saxon invasions in the
fifth century to the turn of the sixteenth century, as well as its
ties to the Celtic world of Wales, Scotland and Ireland, the French
and Anglo-Norman world of the Continent and the Viking and
Scandinavian world of the North Sea. A range of topics are
discussed from Sedulius to Skelton, from Wulfstan of York to
Reginald Pecock, from Pictish art to Gothic sculpture and from the
Vikings to the Black Death. A subject and name index makes it easy
to locate information and bibliographies direct users to essential
primary and secondary sources as well as key scholarship. With more
than 700 entries by over 300 international scholars, this work
provides a detailed portrait of the English Middle Ages and will be
of great value to students and scholars studying Medieval history
in England and Europe, as well as non-specialist readers.
Initially concerned exclusively with death and burial, this volume
grew to encompass the role of the living and the towns they
inhabit. The ten papers take an informal, relaxed tone, seeking to
inspire discussion rather than provide a definitive summary. John
Bradley's candid and witty "Urbanization in Early Medieval Ireland"
stands out especially. He points out that history is not just about
the past; it is very much about the present. (Spaces of the Living
and the Dead) adeptly interweaves both, examining historical facts
and our modern biases toward them.
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