Early Medieval Studies In Memory Of Patrick Wormald

Author : Stephen Baxter,Catherine Karkov,Janet L. Nelson,David Pelteret
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351942492

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Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald by Stephen Baxter,Catherine Karkov,Janet L. Nelson,David Pelteret Pdf

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.

Author : Andrew Rabin,Anya Adair
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781783277605

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Law, Literature, and Social Regulation in Early Medieval England by Andrew Rabin,Anya Adair Pdf

Valuable new insights into the multi-layered and multi-directional relationship of law, literature, and social regulation in pre-Conquest English society. Pre-Conquest English law was among the most sophisticated in early medieval Europe. Composed largely in the vernacular, it played a crucial role in the evolution of early English identity and exercised a formative influence on the development of the Common Law. However, recent scholarship has also revealed the significant influence of these legal documents and ideas on other cultural domains, both modern and pre-modern. This collection explores the richness of pre-Conquest legal writing by looking beyond its traditional codified form. Drawing on methodologies ranging from traditional philology to legal and literary theory, and from a diverse selection of contributors offering a broad spectrum of disciplines, specialities and perspectives, the essays examine the intersection between traditional juridical texts - from law codes and charters to treatises and religious regulation - and a wide range of literary genres, including hagiography and heroic poetry. In doing so, they demonstrate that the boundary that has traditionally separated "law" from other modes of thought and writing is far more porous than hitherto realized. Overall, the volume yields valuable new insights into the multi-layered and multi-directional relationship of law, literature, and social regulation in pre-Conquest English society.

Author : Roy Flechner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351267229

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Making Laws for a Christian Society by Roy Flechner Pdf

This is the first comprehensive study of the contribution that texts from Britain and Ireland made to the development of canon law in early medieval Europe. The book concentrates on a group of insular texts of church law—chief among them the Irish Hibernensis—tracing their evolution through mutual influence, their debt to late antique traditions from around the Mediterranean, their reception (and occasional rejection) by clerics in continental Europe, their fusion with continental texts, and their eventual impact on the formation of a European canonical tradition. Canonical collections, penitentials, and miscellanies of church law, and royal legislation, are all shown to have been 'living texts', which were continually reshaped through a process of trial and error that eventually gave rise to a more stable and more coherent body of church laws. Through a meticulous text-critical study Roy Flechner argues that the growth of church law in Europe owes as much to a serendipitous 'conversation' between texts as it does to any deliberate plan overseen by bishops and popes.

Author : Helen Gittos,Sarah Hamilton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134797608

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Understanding Medieval Liturgy by Helen Gittos,Sarah Hamilton Pdf

This book provides an introduction to current work and new directions in the study of medieval liturgy. It focuses primarily on so-called occasional rituals such as burial, church consecration, exorcism and excommunication rather than on the Mass and Office. Recent research on such rites challenges many established ideas, especially about the extent to which they differed from place to place and over time, and how the surviving evidence should be interpreted. These essays are designed to offer guidance about current thinking, especially for those who are new to the subject, want to know more about it, or wish to conduct research on liturgical topics. Bringing together scholars working in different disciplines (history, literature, architectural history, musicology and theology), time periods (from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries) and intellectual traditions, this collection demonstrates the great potential that liturgical evidence offers for understanding many aspects of the Middle Ages. It includes essays that discuss the practicalities of researching liturgical rituals; show through case studies the problems caused by over-reliance on modern editions; explore the range of sources for particular ceremonies and the sort of questions which can be asked of them; and go beyond the rites themselves to investigate how liturgy was practised and understood in the medieval period.

Author : Helen Foxhall Forbes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317123071

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Heaven and Earth in Anglo-Saxon England by Helen Foxhall Forbes Pdf

Christian theology and religious belief were crucially important to Anglo-Saxon society, and are manifest in the surviving textual, visual and material evidence. This is the first full-length study investigating how Christian theology and religious beliefs permeated society and underpinned social values in early medieval England. The influence of the early medieval Church as an institution is widely acknowledged, but Christian theology itself is generally considered to have been accessible only to a small educated elite. This book shows that theology had a much greater and more significant impact than has been recognised. An examination of theology in its social context, and how it was bound up with local authorities and powers, reveals a much more subtle interpretation of secular processes, and shows how theological debate affected the ways that religious and lay individuals lived and died. This was not a one-way flow, however: this book also examines how social and cultural practices and interests affected the development of theology in Anglo-Saxon England, and how ’popular’ belief interacted with literary and academic traditions. Through case-studies, this book explores how theological debate and discussion affected the personal perspectives of Christian Anglo-Saxons, including where possible those who could not read. In all of these, it is clear that theology was not detached from society or from the experiences of lay people, but formed an essential constituent part.

Author : Tom Lambert,Thomas Benedict Lambert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198786313

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Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England by Tom Lambert,Thomas Benedict Lambert Pdf

The only modern book-length account of Anglo-Saxon legal culture and practice, from the pre-Christian laws of Æthelberht of Kent (c. 600) up to the Norman conquest of 1066, charting the development of kings' involvement in law, in terms both of their authority to legislate and their ability to influence local practice.

Author : Howard Williams,Joanne Kirton,Meggen Gondek
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783270743

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Early Medieval Stone Monuments by Howard Williams,Joanne Kirton,Meggen Gondek Pdf

New insights into inscribed and stone monuments from across Europe in the early middle ages.

Author : Owen M. Phelan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191027901

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The Formation of Christian Europe by Owen M. Phelan Pdf

The Formation of Christian Europe analyses the Carolingians' efforts to form a Christian Empire with the organizing principle of the sacrament of baptism. Owen M. Phelan argues that baptism provided the foundation for this society, and offered a medium for the communication and the popularization of beliefs and ideas, through which the Carolingian Renewal established the vision of an imperium christianum in Europe. He analyses how baptism unified people theologically, socially, and politically and helped Carolingian leaders order their approaches to public life. It enabled reformers to think in ways which were ideologically consistent, publically available, and socially useful. Phelan also examines the influential court intellectual, Alcuin of York, who worked to implement a sacramental society through baptism. The book finally looks at the dissolution of Carolingian political aspirations for an imperium christianum and how, by the end of the ninth century, political frustrations concealed the deeper achievement of the Carolingian Renewal.

Author : Franz Fischer,Christiane Fritze,Georg Vogeler
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Archival materials
ISBN : 9783842350328

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Codicology and palaeography in the digital age 2 by Franz Fischer,Christiane Fritze,Georg Vogeler Pdf

Author : Sarah Greer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198850137

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Commemorating Power in Early Medieval Saxony by Sarah Greer Pdf

Commemorating Power looks at how the past was evoked for political purposes under a new Saxon dynasty, the Ottonians, who came to dominate post-Carolingian Europe after 888 as the rulers of a new empire in Germany and Italy, focusing on two convents of monastic women who played a significant role in Ottonian politics.

Author : Francesca Tinti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351896535

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Sustaining Belief by Francesca Tinti Pdf

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.

Author : John Hudson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 981 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198260301

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The Oxford History of the Laws of England Volume II by John Hudson Pdf

"The Oxford History of the Laws of England" provides a detailed survey of the development of English law and its institutions from the earliest times until the twentieth century, drawing heavily upon recent research using unpublished materials.

Author : John Hudson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 981 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191630033

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The Oxford History of the Laws of England Volume II by John Hudson Pdf

This volume in the landmark Oxford History of the Laws of England series, spans three centuries that encompassed the tumultuous years of the Norman conquest, and during which the common law as we know it today began to emerge. The first full-length treatment of all aspects of the early development of the English common law in a century, featuring extensive research into the original sources that bring the era to life, and providing an interpretative account, a detailed subject analysis, and fascinating glimpses into medieval disputes. Starting with King Alfred (871-899), this book examines the particular contributions of the Anglo-Saxon period to the development of English law, including the development of a powerful machinery of royal government, significant aspects of a long-lasting court structure, and important elements of law relating to theft and violence. Until the reign of King Stephen (1135-54), these Anglo-Saxon contributions were maintained by the Norman rulers, whilst the Conquest of 1066 led to the development of key aspects of landholding that were to have a continuing effect on the emerging common law. The Angevin period saw the establishment of more routine royal administration of justice, closer links between central government and individuals in the localities, and growing bureaucratization. Finally, the later twelfth and earlier thirteenth century saw influential changes in legal expertise. The book concludes with the rebellion against King John in 1215 and the production of the Magna Carta. Laying out in exhaustive detail the origins of the English common law through the ninth to the early thirteenth centuries, this book will be essential reading for all legal historians and a vital work of reference for academics, students, and practitioners.

Author : Valerie L. Garver,Owen M. Phelan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317061243

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Rome and Religion in the Medieval World by Valerie L. Garver,Owen M. Phelan Pdf

Rome and Religion in the Medieval World provides a panoramic and interdisciplinary exploration of Rome and religious culture. The studies build upon or engage Thomas F.X. Noble’s interest in Rome, especially his landmark contributions to the origins of the Papal States and early medieval image controversies. Scholars from a variety of disciplines offer new viewpoints on key issues and questions relating to medieval religious, cultural and intellectual history. Each study explores different dimensions of Rome and religion, including medieval art, theology, material culture, politics, education, law, and religious practice. Drawing upon a wide range of sources, including manuscripts, relics, historical and normative texts, theological tracts, and poetry, the authors illuminate the complexities of medieval Christianity, especially as practiced in the city of Rome itself, and elsewhere in Europe when influenced by the idea of Rome. Some trace early medieval legacies to the early modern period when Protestant and Catholic theologians used early medieval religious texts to define and debate forms of Roman Christianity. The essays highlight and deepen scholarly appreciation of Rome in the rich and varied religious culture of the medieval world.

Author : Andrew J. Romig
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 9780812249248

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Be a Perfect Man by Andrew J. Romig Pdf

In Be a Perfect Man, Andrew J. Romig argues that Carolingian representations of caritas served as a discourse of power, a means by which early medieval writers made claims, both explicit and implicit, about the hierarchies of masculine power that they believed ought to exist within their world.