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"AEthelstan was perhaps the most important king of tenth-century
England, but we know very little about him, and he has no modern
biography. Sarah Foot triumphantly fills this gap, and adds to the
richness of our understanding of the period in a way that few
others have managed."-Chris Wickham, author of The Inheritance Of
Rome The powerful and innovative King AEthelstan reigned only
briefly (924-939), yet his achievements during those eventful
fifteen years changed the course of English history. He won
spectacular military victories (most notably at Brunanburh), forged
unprecedented political connections across Europe, and succeeded in
creating the first unified kingdom of the English. To claim for him
the title of "first English monarch" is no exaggeration. In this
nuanced portrait of AEthelstan, Sarah Foot offers the first full
account of the king ever written. She traces his life through the
various spheres in which he lived and worked, beginning with the
intimate context of his family, then extending outward to his
unusual multiethnic royal court, the Church and his kingdom, the
wars he conducted, and finally his death and legacy. Foot describes
a sophisticated man who was not only a great military leader but
also a worthy king. He governed brilliantly, developed creative
ways to project his image as a ruler, and devised strategic
marriage treaties and gift exchanges to cement alliances with the
leading royal and ducal houses of Europe. AEthelstan's legacy, seen
in the new light of this masterful biography, is inextricably
connected to the very forging of England and early English
identity.
The Social Work Assignments Handbook is the complete guide to
preparing for, carrying out and writing up a social work assignment
or project. Designed to support students through their assignments
from beginning to end, each stage is fully explained through
friendly advice and practical guidance so that students can feel
confident in their work, whether they're writing up quantitative
research findings or carrying out a literature review.
Fruits of the most recent research on the worlds of the eleventh
and twelfth centuries. This volume of the Haskins Society Journal
furthers the Society's commitment to historical and
interdisciplinary research on the early and central Middle Ages,
focusing on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and Angevin worlds.The
topics of the essays range from the complexities of landholding and
service in England after the Norman Conquest and the place of
Portugal in the legal renaissance of the twelfth century, to the
purpose and audiences of copiesof Anglo-Saxon charters produced by
the late medieval community at Bury St Edmunds. There is an
investigation of the hitherto overlooked narrative role of material
objects in Orderic Vitalis'History, continuing the Journal's
investigation of source-specific analyses, together with an
exploration of the date and reliability of an important, but
neglected, witness to the Norman conquest of Sicily. Other essays
look at the longue duree of the ascetic practice of
self-flagellation and its emergence in eleventh-century Italy; the
place and meaning of religious practices in crusading, using the De
expugnatione Lyxbonensi as laboratory; and aural and visual
experience in the life and musical opus of Godric of Finchale.
Contributors: Howard B. Clarke, Sarah Foot, John Howe, Monika
Otter, Daniel Roach, Charles D. Stanton, Susanna A. Throop, Andre
Vitoria.
The Social Work Assignments Handbook is the complete guide to
preparing for, carrying out and writing up a social work assignment
or project. Designed to support students through their assignments
from beginning to end, each stage is fully explained through
friendly advice and practical guidance so that students can feel
confident in their work, whether they're writing up quantitative
research findings or carrying out a literature review.
There is no published account of the history of religious women in
England before the Norman Conquest. Yet, female saints and
abbesses, such as Hild of Whitby or Edith of Wilton, are among the
most celebrated women recorded in Anglo-Saxon sources and their
stories are of popular interest. This book offers the first general
and critical assessment of female religious communities in early
medieval England. It transforms our understanding of the different
modes of religious vocation and institutional provision and thereby
gives early medieval women's history a new foundation.
There is no published account of the history of religious women in
England before the Norman Conquest. Yet, female saints and
abbesses, such as Hild of Whitby or Edith of Wilton, are among the
most celebrated women recorded in Anglo-Saxon sources and their
stories are of popular interest. This book offers the first general
and critical assessment of female religious communities in early
medieval England. It transforms our understanding of the different
modes of religious vocation and institutional provision and thereby
gives early medieval women's history a new foundation.
Responses to the impact of the Norman Conquest examined through the
wealth of evidence provided by the important abbey of Bury St
Edmunds. Bury St Edmunds is noteworthy in so many ways: in
preserving the cult and memory of the last East Anglian king, in
the richness of its archives, and not least in its role as a
mediator of medical texts and studies. All these aspects, and more,
are amply illustrated in this collection, by specialists in their
fields. The balance of the whole work, and the care taken to place
the individual topics in context, has resulted in a satisfying
whole, which placesAbbot Baldwin and his abbey squarely in the
forefront of eleventh-century politics and society. Professor Ann
Williams. The abbey of Bury St Edmunds, by 1100, was an
international centre of learning, outstanding for its culting of St
Edmund, England's patron saint, who was known through France and
Italy as a miracle worker principally, but also as a survivor, who
had resisted the Vikings and the invading king Swein and gained
strength after 1066. Here we journey into the concerns of his
community as it negotiated survival in the Anglo-Norman empire,
examining, on the one hand, the roles of leading monks, such as the
French physician-abbot Baldwin, and, on the other, the part played
by ordinary women of the vill. The abbey of Bury provides an
exceptionally rich archive, including annals, historical texts,
wills, charters, and medical recipes. The chapters in this volume,
written by leading experts, present differing perspectives on
Bury's responses to conquest; reflecting the interests of the
monks, they cover literature, music, medicine, palaeography, and
the history of the region in its European context. DrTom Licence is
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History and Director of the Centre of
East Anglian Studies at the University of East Anglia.
Contributors: Debbie Banham, David Bates, Eric Fernie, Sarah Foot,
Michael Gullick,Tom Licence, Henry Parkes, Veronique Thouroude,
Elizabeth van Houts, Thomas Waldman, Teresa Webber
Untamed Gospel complements The Bright Field and Darkness Yielding,
and offers meditations, reflections, stories, prayers and poems for
use throughout the church year. Each one focuses on the often
startling nature of Jesus' sayings and teachings, the raw honesty
of the psalms and other biblical texts, and on contemporary issues,
such as mental health and displacement, seen in the light of the
demands of the kingdom of God. A rich resource for worship,
preaching, teaching and personal reflection throughout the year,
Untamed Gospel contains hundreds of reproducible items, including
seasonal reflections, stories, homilies, poems and some of Jim
Cotter's last writings as he was being treated for cancer: a moving
sequence of prayer poems inspired by the psalms.
Title: A journal kept by Miss Sarah Foote (Mrs. Sarah Foote Smith)
while journeying with her people from Wellington, Ohio, to
Footeville, town of Nepeuskun, Winnebago County, Wisconsin: April
15 to May 10, 1846.Author: Sarah FootePublisher: Gale, Sabin
Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography,
Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a
collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the
Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and
exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War
and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP05362400CollectionID:
CTRG05-B10333PublicationDate: 19250101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Introd. by Chester W. Smith dated at Kilbourn, Wis.,
April 1905; author's pref. dated at Poysippi, Washara Co., Wis.,
Nov. 1, 1861. Foreword to second ed. signed: Olive Percival.
Imprint from NUC pre-1956.Collation: 1 v.: geneal. tables
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How do you know right from wrong when your certainties about life
are slipping through your fingers? Phillip Snowe is a genius of the
advertising world but what he can no longer do is sell himself to
himself. Struggling to find meaning, he quits his career to give
something back. Julia, his wife, a brilliant and beautiful lawyer,
fights her own demons, but with her intelligence and hard work, she
believes she can keep them at bay. And so far she has. Into their
lives comes Laura Cusack, a single mother torn between the demands
of her young daughters and her own unfulfilled passions. Whose
needs should you put first? Your family's? Your neighbour's? A
complete stranger's? Or your own? And once you have made that
choice, how do you live with yourself? Spanning three generations,
this compassionate and surprising story, touching profoundly upon
love, art, religion and the search for fulfilment, grips from first
to last as it explores the moral and emotional complexities of
modern life.
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How do you know right from wrong when your certainties about life
are slipping through your fingers? Phillip Snowe is a genius of the
advertising world but what he can no longer do is sell himself to
himself. Struggling to find meaning, he quits his career 'to give
something back.' Julia, his wife, a brilliant and beautiful lawyer,
fights her own demons, but with her intelligence and hard work, she
believes she can keep them at bay. And so far she has. Into their
lives comes Laura Cusack, a single mother torn between the demands
of her young daughters and her own unfulfilled passions. Whose
needs should you put first? Your family's? Your neighbour's? A
complete stranger's? Or your own? And once you have made that
choice, how do you live with yourself? Spanning three generations,
this compassionate and surprising story - touching profoundly upon
love, art, religion and the search for fulfilment - grips from
first to last as it explores the moral and emotional complexities
of modern life.
How was history written in Europe and Asia between 400-1400? How
was the past understood in religious, social and political terms?
And in what ways does the diversity of historical writing in this
period mask underlying commonalities in narrating the past? The
volume, which assembles 28 contributions from leading historians,
tackles these and other questions. Part I provides comprehensive
overviews of the development of historical writing in societies
that range from the Korean Peninsula to north-west Europe, which
together highlight regional and cultural distinctiveness. Part II
complements the first part by taking a thematic and comparative
approach; it includes essays on genre, warfare, and religion
(amongst others) which address common concerns of historians
working in this liminal period before the globalizing forces of the
early modern world.
This major new history of monasticism in early Anglo-Saxon England
explores the history of the Church between the conversion to
Christianity in the sixth century and a monastic revival in the
tenth. It represents the first comprehensive revision of accepted
views about monastic life in England before the Benedictine reform.
Sarah Foot shows how early Anglo-Saxon religious houses were
simultaneously active and contemplative, their members withdrawing
from the preoccupations of contemporary aristocratic society while
in a very real sense remaining part of that world. Focusing on the
institution of the 'minster' (the communal religious community) and
rejecting a simplistic binary division between active 'minsters'
and enclosed 'monasteries', Foot argues that historians have been
wrong to see minsters in the light of ideals of Benedictine
monasticism. Instead, she demonstrates that Anglo-Saxon minsters
reflected more of contemporary social attitudes; despite their aim
for solitude, they retained close links to aristocratic German
society.
Beginning in New Testament times, there is a time-honoured
tradition of forming new Christians in the essentials of faith:
catechesis. This volume aims to uncover the riches of this
tradition for all who teach and preach the faith today, and well as
animate it: St Augustine wrote that joy should be the prime
characteristic of those who teach the faith. Six outstanding
theologians and historians open up the tradition of catechesis for
today's church: * Alister McGrath explores the role of the creeds
in catechesis; * Susan Gillingham, Professor of the Hebrew Bible,
looks at the Psalms in Christian formation; * Jennifer Strawbridge,
Associate Professor of New Testament, reflects on catechesis in the
early church; * Carole Harrison, Lady Margaret Professor of
Divinity, offers lessons from the patristic period; * Sarah Foot,
Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, draws lessons from the
Anglo Saxon missions to Europe; * Simon Jones, Chaplain of Merton
College and member of the Liturgical Commission, links formation
and liturgy; * Steven Croft shows how this great tradition can be
revitalised today.
This major 2006 history of monasticism in early Anglo-Saxon England
explores the history of the Church between the conversion to
Christianity in the sixth century and a monastic revival in the
tenth. It represents the first comprehensive revision of accepted
views about monastic life in England before the Benedictine reform.
Sarah Foot shows how early Anglo-Saxon religious houses were
simultaneously active and contemplative, their members withdrawing
from the preoccupations of contemporary aristocratic society, while
still remaining part of that world. Focusing on the institution of
the 'minster' (the communal religious community) and rejecting a
simplistic binary division between active 'minsters' and enclosed
'monasteries', Foot argues that historians have been wrong to see
minsters in the light of ideals of Benedictine monasticism.
Instead, she demonstrates that Anglo-Saxon minsters reflected more
of contemporary social attitudes; despite their aim for solitude,
they retained close links to aristocratic German society.
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