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This book explores social cohesion in rural settlements in western
Europe from 700-1050, asking to what extent settlements, or
districts, constituted units of social organisation. It focuses on
the interactions, interconnections and networks of people who lived
side by side - neighbours. Drawing evidence from most of the
current western European countries, the book plots and interrogates
the very different practices of this wide range of regions in a
systematically comparative framework. Neighbours and strangers
considers the variety of local responses to the supra-local agents
of landlords and rulers and the impact, such as it was, of those
agents on the small-scale residential group. It also assesses the
impact on local societies of the values, instructions and demands
of the wider literate world of Christianity, as delivered by local
priests. -- .
An investigation into the hugely significant works produced by the
Worcester foundation at a period of turmoil and change. From the
mid-eleventh to the mid-twelfth century Worcester was a monastic
community of unparalleled importance. Not only was it home to many
of the most famous bishops and monks of the period, including
Bishop Wulfstan II: it was also a centre of notable and ambitious
scholarly production. Under Wulfstan's guidance, a number of
Worcester brethren undertook historical research that resulted in
the writing of such renowned texts as Hemming's Cartulary and the
Worcester Chronica Chronicarum. Significantly, these historical
endeavours spanned the political chasm of the Norman Conquest. The
essays collected here aim to shed new light on different aspects of
the Worcester "historical workshop", whose literary ouput was, in
several respects, pioneering in contemporary European scholarship.
Several chapters address the different ways in which the monks
organised and updated their archives of documents, both via their
sequence of cartularies, with a special focus on the narrative
parts of Hemming's Cartulary, and via an interesting (and
previously unedited) prose account of the foundation of the see.
Others focus on the famous Worcester Chronica Chronicarum,
attributed both to Florence and to John, investigating the major
model for its composition and structure (the work of Marianus
Scotus), the stages in which it was completed, and its connections
with Welsh chronicles, as well as the related and fascinating
abbreviated version, written mostly in the hand of John himself,
and known as the Chronicula. The volume thus elucidates how the
Worcester monks navigated the period across the Conquest through
the composition of different genres of texts, and how these texts
shaped their own institutional memory.
This book reconstructs the late Anglo-Saxon history of the church
of Worcester, covering the period between Bishops Waerferth and
Wulfstan II. Starting with an examination of the episcopal
succession and the relations between bishops and cathedral
community, the volume moves on to consider the development of the
church of Worcester's landed estate, its extent and its
organization. These are analysed in connection with the very
significant measures taken in the eleventh century to preserve -
and sometimes manipulate - the memory of past land transactions. Of
paramount importance among such measures was the production of two
cartularies - Liber Wigorniensis and Hemming's cartulary -
respectively compiled at the beginning and at the very end of the
eleventh century. Last but not least, the volume considers
ecclesiastical organization and pastoral care in the diocese of
Worcester, by looking at the relations between the cathedral church
and the other churches in the diocese. Special attention is given
to the payment of church dues and to such aspects of pastoral care
as preaching, penance and visitation of the sick. Thanks to the
combined analysis of these areas, the book offers a detailed
picture of the main occupations (and preoccupations) of the late
Anglo-Saxon church of Worcester in its interaction with society at
large: from its tenants to its faithful, from the clergy in its
diocese to its opponents in land disputes.
This book reconstructs the late Anglo-Saxon history of the church
of Worcester, covering the period between Bishops Waerferth and
Wulfstan II. Starting with an examination of the episcopal
succession and the relations between bishops and cathedral
community, the volume moves on to consider the development of the
church of Worcester's landed estate, its extent and its
organization. These are analysed in connection with the very
significant measures taken in the eleventh century to preserve -
and sometimes manipulate - the memory of past land transactions. Of
paramount importance among such measures was the production of two
cartularies - Liber Wigorniensis and Hemming's cartulary -
respectively compiled at the beginning and at the very end of the
eleventh century. Last but not least, the volume considers
ecclesiastical organization and pastoral care in the diocese of
Worcester, by looking at the relations between the cathedral church
and the other churches in the diocese. Special attention is given
to the payment of church dues and to such aspects of pastoral care
as preaching, penance and visitation of the sick. Thanks to the
combined analysis of these areas, the book offers a detailed
picture of the main occupations (and preoccupations) of the late
Anglo-Saxon church of Worcester in its interaction with society at
large: from its tenants to its faithful, from the clergy in its
diocese to its opponents in land disputes.
This book explores social cohesion in rural settlements in western
Europe from 700-1050, asking to what extent settlements, or
districts, constituted units of social organisation. It focuses on
the interactions, interconnections and networks of people who lived
side by side - neighbours. Drawing evidence from most of the
current western European countries, the book plots and interrogates
the very different practices of this wide range of regions in a
systematically comparative framework. It considers the variety of
local responses to the supra-local agents of landlords and rulers
and the impact, such as it was, of those agents on the small-scale
residential group. It also assesses the impact on local societies
of the values, instructions and demands of the wider literate world
of Christianity, as delivered by local priests. -- .
The role of pastoral care reconsidered in the context of major
changes within the Anglo-Saxon church. The tenth and eleventh
centuries saw a number of very significant developments in the
history of the English Church, perhaps the most important being the
proliferation of local churches, which were to be the basis of the
modern parochial system. Using evidence from homilies, canon law,
saints' lives, and liturgical and penitential sources, the articles
collected in this volume focus on the ways in which such
developments were reflected in pastoral care, considering what it
consisted of at this time, how it was provided and by whom.
Starting with an investigation of the secular clergy, their
recruitment and patronage, the papers move on to examine a variety
of aspects of late Anglo-Saxon pastoral care, including church due
payments, preaching, baptism, penance, confession, visitation of
the sick and archaeological evidence of burial practice. Special
attention is paid to the few surviving manuscripts which are likely
to have been used in the field and the evidence they provide for
the context, the actions and the verbal exchanges which
characterised pastoral provisions.
This publication explores the interactions between the inhabitants
of early medieval England and their contemporaries in continental
Europe. Starting with a brief excursus on previous treatments of
the topic, the discussion then focuses on Anglo-Saxon geographical
perceptions and representations of Europe and of Britain's place in
it, before moving on to explore relations with Rome, dynasties and
diplomacy, religious missions and monasticism, travel, trade and
warfare. This Element demonstrates that the Anglo-Saxons' relations
with the continent had a major impact on the shaping of their
political, economic, religious and cultural life.
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