Kingship Society And The Church In Anglo Saxon Yorkshire

Author : Thomas Pickles
Publisher : Medieval History and Archaeolo
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198818779

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Kingship, Society, and the Church in Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire by Thomas Pickles Pdf

Inspired by studies of Carolingian Europe, Kingship, Society and the Church in Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire argues that the social strategies of local kin-groups drove conversion to Christianity and church building in Yorkshire from 400-1066 AD. It challenges the emphasis that has been placed on the role and agency of Anglo-Saxon kings in conversion and church building. It moves forward the debate surrounding the 'minster hypothesis' through aninter-disciplinary case study.The kingdom of the Deirans stretched from the Humber to the Tees and the North Sea to the Pennines between 600 and 867. The Scandinavian kings at York probably established anadministration for much of this area between 867 and 954. The West Saxon kings incorporated it into an English kingdom between 954 and 1066 and established the 'shire' from which the name Yorkshire derives.Members of Deiran kin-groups faced uncertainties that predisposed them to consider conversion as a social strategy. Their decision to convert produced a new social fraction - the 'ecclesiastical aristocracy' - with a distinctive but fragile identity. The 'ecclesiasticalaristocracy' transformed kingship, established a network of religious communities, and engaged in the conversion of the laity. The social and political instabilities produced by conversion along withthe fragility of ecclesiastical identity resulted in the expropriation and re-organization of many religious communities. Nevertheless, the Scandinavian and West Saxon kings and their nobles allied with wealthy and influential archbishops of York, and there is evidence for the survival, revival, or foundation of religious communities as well as the establishment of local churches.

Author : Thomas Pickles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192550767

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Kingship, Society, and the Church in Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire by Thomas Pickles Pdf

Inspired by studies of Carolingian Europe, Kingship, Society and the Church in Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire argues that the social strategies of local kin-groups drove conversion to Christianity and church building in Yorkshire from 400-1066 AD. It challenges the emphasis that has been placed on the role and agency of Anglo-Saxon kings in conversion and church building, and moves forward the debate surrounding the 'minster hypothesis' through an inter-disciplinary case study. Members of Deiran kin-groups faced uncertainties that predisposed them to consider conversion as a social strategy, in their rule between 600 and 867. Their decision to convert produced a new social fraction - the 'ecclesiastical aristocracy' - with a distinctive but fragile identity. The 'ecclesiastical aristocracy' transformed kingship, established a network of religious communities, and engaged in the conversion of the laity. The social and political instabilities produced by conversion along with the fragility of ecclesiastical identity resulted in the expropriation and re-organization of many religious communities. Nevertheless, the Scandinavian and West Saxon kings and their nobles allied with wealthy and influential archbishops of York, and there is evidence for the survival, revival, or foundation of religious communities as well as the establishment of local churches.

Author : Carole Lomas
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781803275802

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Reconstructing the Development of Somerset’s Early Medieval Church by Carole Lomas Pdf

This book uses Somerset as a case study to contribute to a broader understanding of how the Church developed across the British Isles during the transition from the post-Roman Church to the 11th century. It collates and cross-references all earlier research and offers the most up-to-date study of Somerset’s post-Roman churches.

Author : Johanna Dale
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800084353

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St Peter-On-The-Wall by Johanna Dale Pdf

The Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall, built on the ruins of a Roman fort, dates from the mid-seventh century and is one of the oldest largely intact churches in England. It stands in splendid isolation on the shoreline at the mouth of the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, where the land meets and interpenetrates with the sea and the sky. This book brings together contributors from across the arts, humanities and social sciences to uncover the pre-modern contexts and modern resonances of this medieval building and its landscape setting. The impetus for this collection was the recently published designs for a new nuclear power station at Bradwell on Sea, which, if built, would have a significant impact on the chapel and its landscape setting. St Peter-on-the-Wall highlights the multiple ways in which the chapel and landscape are historically and archaeologically significant, while also drawing attention to the modern importance of Bradwell as a place of Christian worship, of sanctuary and of cultural production. In analysing the significance of the chapel and surrounding landscape over more than a thousand years, this collection additionally contributes to wider debates about the relationship between space and place, and particularly the interfaces between both medieval and modern cultures and also heritage and the natural environment.

Author : Katharine Sykes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192659125

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Symbolic Reproduction in Early Medieval England by Katharine Sykes Pdf

In the early Middle Ages, the conversion of the early English kingdoms acted as a catalyst for significant social and cultural change. One of the most visible of these changes was the introduction of a new type of household: the monastic household. These reproduced through education and training, rather than biological means; their inhabitants practised celibacy as a lifelong state, rather than as a stage in the life course. Because monastic households depended on secular households to produce the next generation of recruits, previous studies have tended to view them as more mutable than their secular counterparts, which are implicitly regarded as natural and ahistorical. Katharine Sykes charts some of the significant changes to the structure of households between the seventh to eleventh centuries, as ideas of spiritual, non-biological reproduction first fostered in monastic households were adopted in royal households in the tenth and eleventh centuries, and as ideas about kinship that were generated in secular households, such as the relationship between genealogy and inheritance, were picked up and applied by their monastic counterparts. In place of binary divisions between secular and monastic, biological and spiritual, real and imagined, Sykes demonstrates that different forms of kinship and reproduction in this period were intimately linked.

Author : Kathrin McCann
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786832931

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Anglo-Saxon Kingship and Political Power by Kathrin McCann Pdf

Works on Anglo-Saxon kingship often take as their starting point the line from Beowulf: ‘that was a good king’. This monograph, however, explores what it means to be a king, and how kings defined their own kingship in opposition to other powers. Kings derived their royal power from a divine source, which led to conflicts between the interpreters of the divine will (the episcopate) and the individual wielding power (the king). Demonstrating how Anglo-Saxon kings were able to manipulate political ideologies to increase their own authority, this book explores the unique way in which Anglo-Saxon kings understood the source and nature of their power, and of their own authority.

Author : Levi Roach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107657205

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Kingship and Consent in Anglo-Saxon England, 871–978 by Levi Roach Pdf

This engaging study focuses on the role of assemblies in later Anglo-Saxon politics, challenging and nuancing existing models of the late Anglo-Saxon state. Its ten chapters investigate both traditional constitutional aspects of assemblies - who attended these events, where and when they met, and what business they conducted - and the symbolic and representational nature of these gatherings. Levi Roach takes into account important recent work on continental rulership, and argues that assemblies were not a check on kingship in these years, but rather an essential feature of it. In particular, the author highlights the role of symbolic communication at assemblies, arguing that ritual and demonstration were as important in English politics as they were elsewhere in Europe. Far from being exceptional, the methods of rulership employed by English kings look very much like those witnessed elsewhere on the continent, where assemblies and ritual formed an essential part of the political order.

Author : Sam Lucy
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015041988778

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The Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries of East Yorkshire by Sam Lucy Pdf

A study of mortuary practices in East Yorkshire from the fifth to the late seventh century BC. The author uses all the available evidence, from well-recorded modern excavations to briefly recorded nineteenth century finds. He believes that exploring the variation in burial rites can tell us more about this society than ' trying to reduce the rite to a single homogeneous entity ...until the advent of Christianity brings a new rite '. The book includes a useful chapter on ' The Anglo-Saxon Myth and the Development of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology '.

Author : Nicholas J. Higham,M. J. Ryan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300125344

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The Anglo-Saxon World by Nicholas J. Higham,M. J. Ryan Pdf

Presents the Anglo-Saxon period of English history from the fifth century up to the late eleventh century, covering such events as the spread of Christianity, the invasions of the Vikings, the composition of Beowulf, and the Battle of Hastings.

Author : Helena Hamerow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199203253

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Rural Settlements and Society in Anglo-Saxon England by Helena Hamerow Pdf

The first major synthesis of the evidence for Anglo-Saxon settlements from across England and throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, and a study of what it reveals about the communities who built and lived in them.

Author : William Albert Chaney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:251931081

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The Cult of Kingship in Anglo - Saxon England by William Albert Chaney Pdf

Author : Brian Catchpole
Publisher : London : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Acculturation
ISBN : UOM:39015011240887

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The Clash of Cultures by Brian Catchpole Pdf

Author : Andrew Reynolds
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191567650

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Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs by Andrew Reynolds Pdf

Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs is the first detailed consideration of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon society dealt with social outcasts. Beginning with the period following Roman rule and ending in the century following the Norman Conquest, it surveys a period of fundamental social change, which included the conversion to Christianity, the emergence of the late Saxon state, and the development of the landscape of the Domesday Book. While an impressive body of written evidence for the period survives in the form of charters and law-codes, archaeology is uniquely placed to investigate the earliest period of post-Roman society - the fifth to seventh centuries - for which documents are lacking. For later centuries, archaeological evidence can provide us with an independent assessment of the realities of capital punishment and the status of outcasts. Andrew Reynolds argues that outcast burials show a clear pattern of development in this period. In the pre-Christian centuries, 'deviant' burial remains are found only in community cemeteries, but the growth of kingship and the consolidation of territories during the seventh century witnessed the emergence of capital punishment and places of execution in the English landscape. Locally determined rites, such as crossroads burial, now existed alongside more formal execution cemeteries. Gallows were located on major boundaries, often next to highways, always in highly visible places. The findings of this pioneering national study thus have important consequences on our understanding of Anglo-Saxon society. Overall, Reynolds concludes, organized judicial behaviour was a feature of the earliest Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, rather than just the two centuries prior to the Norman Conquest.

Author : Norman F. Cantor
Publisher : Touchstone
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0671202413

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The English: a History of Politics and Society to 1760 by Norman F. Cantor Pdf

Author : Austin Gee
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4987135

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Royal Historical Society Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History: Publications of 1998 by Austin Gee Pdf

The Royal Historical Society's Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of books and articles on historical topics published in a single calendar year. The volume covers all periods of British and Irish history from Roman Britain to the late twentieth century, and also includes a section on imperial and commonwealth history. It is the most complete and up-to-date bibliography of its type, and an indispensable tool for historians.