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Saints' Cults in the Celtic World (Paperback)
Steven Boardman, John Reuben Davies, Eila Williamson; Contributions by Eila Williamson, Fiona Edmonds, …
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Saints' cults flourished in the medieval world, and the phenomenon
is examined here in a series of studies. The way in which saints'
cults operated across and beyond political, ethnic and linguistic
boundaries in the medieval British Isles and Ireland, from the
sixth to the sixteenth centuries, is the subject of this book. In a
series of case studies, the contributions highlight the factors
that allowed particular cults to prosper in, or that made them
relevant to, a variety of cultural contexts. The collection has a
particular emphasis on northern Britain, andthe role of devotional
interests in connecting or shaping a number of polities and
cultural identities (Pictish, Scottish, Northumbrian, Irish, Welsh
and English) in a world of fluid political and territorial
boundaries. Althoughthe bulk of the studies are concerned with the
significance of cults in the insular context, many of the articles
also touch on the development of pan-European devotions (such as
the cults of St Brendan, The Three Kings or St George).
Contributors: James E. Fraser, Thomas Owen Clancy, Fiona Edmonds,
John Reuben Davies, Karen Jankulak, Sally Crumplin, Joanna
Huntington, Steve Boardman, Eila Williamson, Jonathan Wooding
Essays offering new approaches to the changing forms of medieval
religious masculinity. The complex relationship between masculinity
and religion, as experienced in both the secular and ecclesiastical
worlds, forms the focus for this volume, whose range encompasses
the rabbis of the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmud,and moves via
Carolingian and Norman France, Siena, Antioch, and high and late
medieval England to the eve of the Reformation. Chapters
investigate the creation and reconstitution of different
expressions of masculine identity, from the clerical enthusiasts
for marriage to the lay practitioners of chastity, from crusading
bishops to holy kings. They also consider the extent to which lay
and clerical understandings of masculinity existed in an unstable
dialectical relationship, at times sharing similar features, at
others pointedly different, co-opting and rejecting features of the
other; the articles show this interplay to be more far more
complicated than a simple linear narrative of either increasing
divergence, or of clerical colonization of lay masculinity. They
also challenge conventional historiographies of the adoption of
clerical celibacy, of the decline of monasticism and the gendered
nature of piety. Patricia Cullum is Head of History at the
University of Huddersfield; Katherine J. Lewis is Senior Lecturer
in History at the University of Huddersfield. Contributors: James
G. Clark, P.H. Cullum, Kirsten A. Fenton, Joanna Huntington,
Katherine J. Lewis, Matthew Mesley, Catherine Sanok, Michael L.
Satlow, Rachel Stone, Jennifer D. Thibodeaux, Marita von
Weissenberg
A series which is a model of its kind EDMUND KING, HISTORY This
latest collection reflects the full range and vitality of the
current work on the Anglo-Norman period. It opens with the R. Allen
Brown Memorial Lecture for 2009, a wide-ranging reflection by the
distinguished French historian Dominique Barthelemy on the Peace of
God and the role of bishops in the long eleventh century. Economic
history is prominent in papers on the urban transformation in
England between 900 and 1100, on the roots of the royal forestin
England, and on trade links between England and Lower Normandy. A
close study of the Surrey manor of Mortlake brings in topography,
another aspect of which appears in an article on the representation
of outdoor space by Normanand Anglo-Norman chroniclers. Social
history is treated in papers dealing with the upbringing of the
children of the Angevin counts and with the developing ideas of
knighthood and chivalry in the works of Dudo of Saint-Quentin and
Benoit of Sainte-Maure. Finally, political ideas are examined
through careful reading of texts in papers on writing the rebellion
of Earl Waltheof in the twelfth century and on the use of royal
titles and prayers for the king inAnglo-Norman charters.
Contributors: Dominique Barthelemy, Kathryn Dutton, Leonie Hicks,
Richard Holt, Joanna Huntington, Laurence Jean-Marie, Dolly
Jorgensen, Max Lieberman, Stephen Marritt, Pamela Taylor
Essays offering new approaches to the changing forms of medieval
religious masculinity. The complex relationship between masculinity
and religion, as experienced in both the secular and ecclesiastical
worlds, forms the focus for this volume, whose range encompasses
the rabbis of the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmud,and moves via
Carolingian and Norman France, Siena, Antioch, and high and late
medieval England to the eve of the Reformation. Chapters
investigate the creation and reconstitution of different
expressions of masculine identity, from the clerical enthusiasts
for marriage to the lay practitioners of chastity, from crusading
bishops to holy kings. They also consider the extent to which lay
and clerical understandings of masculinity existed in an unstable
dialectical relationship, at times sharing similar features, at
others pointedly different, co-opting and rejecting features of the
other; the articles show this interplay to be more far more
complicated than a simple linear narrative of either increasing
divergence, or of clerical colonization of lay masculinity. They
also challenge conventional historiographies of the adoption of
clerical celibacy, of the decline of monasticism and the gendered
nature of piety. P.H. CULLUM is Student Experience Co-ordinator for
Music, Humanities and Media at the University of Huddersfield;
KATHERINE J. LEWIS is Senior Lecturer in History at the University
of Huddersfield. Contributors: James G. Clark, P.H. Cullum, Kirsten
A. Fenton, Joanna Huntington, Katherine J. Lewis, Matthew Mesley,
Catherine Sanok, Michael L. Satlow, Rachel Stone, Jennifer D.
Thibodeaux, Marita von Weissenberg
Saints' cults flourished in the medieval world, and the phenomenon
is examined here in a series of studies. The way in which saints'
cults operated across and beyond political, ethnic and linguistic
boundaries in the medieval British Isles and Ireland, from the
sixth to the sixteenth centuries, is the subject of this book. In a
series of case studies, the contributions highlight the factors
that allowed particular cults to prosper in, or that made them
relevant to, a variety of cultural contexts. The collection has a
particular emphasis on northern Britain, andthe role of devotional
interests in connecting or shaping a number of polities and
cultural identities (Pictish, Scottish, Northumbrian, Irish, Welsh
and English) in a world of fluid political and territorial
boundaries. Althoughthe bulk of the studies are concerned with the
significance of cults in the insular context, many of the articles
also touch on the development of pan-European devotions (such as
the cults of St Brendan, The Three Kings or St George).
Contributors: James E. Fraser, Thomas Owen Clancy, Fiona Edmonds,
John Reuben Davies, Karen Jankulak, Sally Crumplin, Joanna
Huntington, Steve Boardman, Eila Williamson, Jonathan Wooding
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