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For more than forty years Nicholas Brooks has been at the forefront
of research into early medieval Britain. In order to honour the
achievements of one of the leading figures in Anglo-Saxon studies,
this volume brings together essays by an internationally renowned
group of scholars on four themes that the honorand has made his
own: myths, rulership, church and charters. Myth and rulership are
addressed in articles on the early history of Wessex, AthelflA|d of
Mercia and the battle of Brunanburh; contributions concerned with
charters explore the means for locating those hitherto lost, the
use of charters in the study of place-names, their role as
instruments of agricultural improvement, and the reasons for the
decline in their output immediately after the Norman Conquest.
Nicholas Brooks's long-standing interest in the church of
Canterbury is reflected in articles on the Kentish minster of
Reculver, which became a dependency of the church of Canterbury, on
the role of early tenth-century archbishops in developing
coronation ritual, and on the presentation of Archbishop Dunstan as
a prophet. Other contributions provide case studies of saints'
cults with regional and international dimensions, examining a mass
for St Birinus and dedications to St Clement, while several
contributions take a wider perspective, looking at later
interpretations of the Anglo-Saxon past, both in the Anglo-Norman
and more modern periods. This stimulating and wide-ranging
collection will be welcomed by the many readers who have benefited
from Nicholas Brooks's own work, or who have an interest in the
Anglo-Saxon past more generally. It is an outstanding contribution
to early medieval studies.
For more than forty years Nicholas Brooks has been at the forefront
of research into early medieval Britain. In order to honour the
achievements of one of the leading figures in Anglo-Saxon studies,
this volume brings together essays by an internationally renowned
group of scholars on four themes that the honorand has made his
own: myths, rulership, church and charters. Myth and rulership are
addressed in articles on the early history of Wessex, AthelflA|d of
Mercia and the battle of Brunanburh; contributions concerned with
charters explore the means for locating those hitherto lost, the
use of charters in the study of place-names, their role as
instruments of agricultural improvement, and the reasons for the
decline in their output immediately after the Norman Conquest.
Nicholas Brooks's long-standing interest in the church of
Canterbury is reflected in articles on the Kentish minster of
Reculver, which became a dependency of the church of Canterbury, on
the role of early tenth-century archbishops in developing
coronation ritual, and on the presentation of Archbishop Dunstan as
a prophet. Other contributions provide case studies of saints'
cults with regional and international dimensions, examining a mass
for St Birinus and dedications to St Clement, while several
contributions take a wider perspective, looking at later
interpretations of the Anglo-Saxon past, both in the Anglo-Norman
and more modern periods. This stimulating and wide-ranging
collection will be welcomed by the many readers who have benefited
from Nicholas Brooks's own work, or who have an interest in the
Anglo-Saxon past more generally. It is an outstanding contribution
to early medieval studies.
Fresh assessments of Edgar's reign, reappraising key elements using
documentary, coin, and pictorial evidence. King Edgar ruled England
for a short but significant period in the middle of the tenth
century. Two of his four children succeeded him as king and two
were to become canonized. He was known to later generations as "the
Pacific" or"the Peaceable" because his reign was free from external
attack and without internal dissention, and he presided over a
period of major social and economic change: early in his rule the
growth of monastic power and wealth involved redistribution of much
of the country's assets, while the end of his reign saw the
creation of England's first national coinage, with firm fiscal
control from the centre. He fulfilled King Alfred's dream of the
West Saxon royalhouse ruling the whole of England, and, like his
uncle King AEthelstan, he maintained overlordship of the whole of
Britain. Despite his considerable achievements, however, Edgar has
been neglected by scholars, partly becausehis reign has been
thought to have passed with little incident. A time for a full
reassessment of his achievement is therefore long overdue, which
the essays in this volume provide. CONTRIBUTORS: SIMON KEYNES,
SHASHI JAYAKUMAR, C.P. LEWIS, FREDERICK M. BIGGS, BARBARA YORKE,
JULIA CRICK, LESLEY ABRAMS, HUGH PAGAN, JULIA BARROW, CATHERINE
KARKOV, ALEXANDER R. RUMBLE, MERCEDES SALVADOR-BELLO
The sense of a group of scholars sharing work in progress comes
over on numerous occasions... a series which is a model of its
kind. EDMUND KING, HISTORY The emphasis in this collection of
recent work on the Anglo-Norman realm is particularly on narrative
sources: Dudo, Vita AEdwardi Regis, monastic chronicle audiences in
the Fens, the chronicles of Anjou, the Warenne view of the past -
and much later sources for stereotypical images of the Normans.
There are also papers analysing both charter and chronicle evidence
in reconsiderations of the succession disputes following the deaths
of William I and WilliamII. Papers range geographically from Anjou
to the Irish Sea zone. Contributors, from France and Germany as
well as from Britain, Ireland and the US, are BERNARD S. BACHRACH,
RICHARD BARBER, JULIA BARROW, CLARE DOWNHAM, VERONIQUE GAZEAU, JOHN
GRASSI, ELISABETH VAN HOUTS, JENNIFER PAXTON, NEIL STREVETT, NEIL
WRIGHT.
Fresh assessments of Edgar's reign, reappraising key elements using
documentary, coin, and pictorial evidence. King Edgar ruled England
for a short but significant period in the middle of the tenth
century. Two of his four children succeeded him as king and two
were to become canonized. He was known to later generations as "the
Pacific" or"the Peaceable" because his reign was free from external
attack and without internal dissention, and he presided over a
period of major social and economic change: early in his rule the
growth of monastic power and wealth involved redistribution of much
of the country's assets, while the end of his reign saw the
creation of England's first national coinage, with firm fiscal
control from the centre. He fulfilled King Alfred's dream of the
West Saxon royalhouse ruling the whole of England, and, like his
uncle King AEthelstan, he maintained overlordship of the whole of
Britain. Despite his considerable achievements, however, Edgar has
been neglected by scholars, partly because his reign has been
thought to have passed with little incident. A time for a full
reassessment of his achievement is therefore long overdue, which
the essays in this volume provide. CONTRIBUTORS: SIMON KEYNES,
SHASHIJAYAKUMAR, C.P, LEWIS, FREDERICK M. BIGGS, BARBARA YORKE,
JULIA CRICK, LESLEY ABRAMS, HUGH PAGAN, JULIA BARROW, CATHERINE
KARKOV, ALEXANDER R. RUMBLE, MERCEDES SALVADOR-BELLO.
The latest collection of articles on Anglo-Norman topics, with a
particular focus on Wales. The 2007 conference on Anglo-Norman
Studies, the thirtieth in the annual series, was held in Wales, and
there is a Welsh flavour to the proceedings now published. Five of
the thirteen papers cover Welsh topics in the long twelfthcentury:
Church reform, political culture, the supposed resurgence of Powys
as a political entity, and interpreter families in the Marches,
besides a broad and compelling historiographical survey of the
place of the Normans in Welsh history. Twelfth-century England is
represented by papers on chivalry and kingship [in literature and
life], the Evesham surveys, lay charters, and Henry of Blois and
the arts. Essays which focus on the southern Italian city ofTrani
and on the crusader history of Ralph of Caen explore wider Norman
identities. Finally, there are two broad surveys contextualizing
the Anglo-Norman experience: on the careers of the clergy and on
how warriors were identified before heraldry. CONTRIBUTORS: HUW
PRYCE, LAURA ASHE, JULIA BARROW, HOWARD B. CLARKE, JOHN REUBEN
DAVIES, JUDITH EVERARD, NATASHA HODGSON, CHARLES INSLEY, ROBERT
JONES, PAUL OLDFIELD, DAVID STEPHENSON, FREDERICK SUPPE,JEFFREY
WEST.
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.
with contributions from Neil Bettridge, Jean Cameron, Paul Cavill
and Teresa Webber. The White Book of Southwell derives its name
from its white vellum cover. Compiled between c.1350 and 1460, with
a few later additions, its 500 pages record 620 individual
documents from c.1100 onwards. They range widely from papal bulls
and royal charters, quo warranto inquiries, privileges granted by
many archbishops of York to the Chapter at Southwell,individual
canons (or prebendaries) and the parishes where the Minster held
lands or controlled livings. The majority date from c.1200-1460 and
concern properties which the Chapter owned and administered through
its courts, for which some rare proceedings are preserved. Because
of their variety, the documents it contains are important not
simply for ecclesiastical history but for broader social and
economic trends in medieval Nottinghamshire either side of the
Black Death. The volume also furnishes a remarkable amount of
little-studied onomastic and linguistic evidence in medieval Latin,
Anglo-Norman French and Middle English as well as strong traces of
earlier Anglo-Scandinavianinfluences on Nottinghamshire. First
brought to attention by the pioneering county historian Robert
Thoroton (d. 1677), the White Book has been consulted in all
subsequent generations. However, while some of its contents
havebeen published in their original language or in translation,
this is the first systematic, complete scholarly edition. A
substantial introduction sets the White Book in context, describing
its structure and content. Extensive commentary helps to date many
undated individual documents and identify persons and places named,
a detailed Fasti provides details on the personnel of the Minster
and its appendant churches, while detailed indexes assist
consultation.
A comprehensive survey of recent work in Medieval Italian history
and archaeology by an international cast of contributors, arranged
within a broader context of studies on other regions and major
historical transitions in Europe, c.400 to c.1400CE. Each of the
contributors reflect on the contribution made to the field by Chris
Wickham, whose own work spans studies based on close archival work,
to broad and ambitious statements on economic and social change in
the transition from Roman to medieval Europe, and the value of
comparing this across time and space.
Unlike monks and nuns, clergy have hitherto been sidelined in
accounts of the Middle Ages, but they played an important role in
medieval society. This first broad-ranging study in English of the
secular clergy examines how ordination provided a framework for
clerical life cycles and outlines the influence exerted on secular
clergy by monastic ideals before tracing typical career paths for
clerics. Concentrating on northern France, England and Germany in
the period c.800-c.1200, Julia Barrow explores how entry into the
clergy usually occurred in childhood, with parents making decisions
for their sons, although other relatives, chiefly clerical uncles,
were also influential. By comparing two main types of family
structure, Barrow supplies an explanation of why Gregorian
reformers faced little serious opposition in demanding an end to
clerical marriage in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Changes in
educational provision c.1100 also help to explain growing social
and geographical mobility among clerics.
Unlike monks and nuns, clergy have hitherto been sidelined in
accounts of the Middle Ages, but they played an important role in
medieval society. This first broad-ranging study in English of the
secular clergy examines how ordination provided a framework for
clerical life cycles and outlines the influence exerted on secular
clergy by monastic ideals before tracing typical career paths for
clerics. Concentrating on northern France, England and Germany in
the period c.800-c.1200, Julia Barrow explores how entry into the
clergy usually occurred in childhood, with parents making decisions
for their sons, although other relatives, chiefly clerical uncles,
were also influential. By comparing two main types of family
structure, Barrow supplies an explanation of why Gregorian
reformers faced little serious opposition in demanding an end to
clerical marriage in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Changes in
educational provision c.1100 also help to explain growing social
and geographical mobility among clerics.
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