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Author : David W. Rollason
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Durham Liber vitae
ISBN : 1843830604
The several thousand names recorded here cast light on how the church in Northumbria interacted with contemporary lay and ecclesiastical society over six hundred years.
Author : Joelle Rollo-Koster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315466835
Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed explores new cultural research into death and funeral practices in medieval Europe and demonstrates the important relationship between death and the world of the living in the Middle Ages. Across ten chapters, the articles in this volume survey the cultural effects of death. This volume explores overarching topics such as burials, commemorations, revenants, mourning practices and funerals, capital punishment, suspiscious death, and death registrations using case studies from across Europe including England, Iceland, and Spain. Together these chapters discuss how death was ritualised and choreographed, but also how it was expressed in writing throughout various documentary sources including wills and death registries. In each instance, records are analysed through a cultural framework to better understand the importance of the authors of death and their audience. Drawing together and building upon the latest scholarship, this book is essential reading for all students and academics of death in the medieval period.
Author : Catalin Taranu
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781685710309
Writing circa 731 CE, Bede professes in the introduction to his Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum that he will write his account of the past of the English following only vera lex historiae. Whether explicitly or (most often) implicitly, historians narrate the past according to a conception of what constitutes historical truth that emerges in the use of narrative strategies, of certain formulae or textual forms, in establishing one's own ideological authority or that of one's informants, in faithfulness to a cultural, narrative, or poetic tradition. If we extend the scope of what we understand by history (especially in a pre-modern setting) to include not just the writings of historians legitimated by their belonging to the Latinate matrix of christianized classical history writing, but also collective narratives, practices, rituals, oral poetry, liturgy, artistic representations, and acts of identity - all re-enacting the past as, or as representation of, the present, we find a plethora of modes of constructions of historical truth, narrative authority, and reliability. Vera Lex Historiae? will be constituted by contributions that reveal the variety of evental strategies by which historical truth was constructed in late antiquity and the earlier Middle Ages, and the range of procedures by which such narratives were established first as being historical and then as "true" histories. This is not only a matter of narrative strategies, but also habitus, ways of living and acting in the world that feed on and back into the commemoration and re-enactment of the past by communities and by individuals. In doing this, we hope to recover something of the plurality of modes of preserving and reenacting the past available in late antiquity and the earlier middle ages which we pass by because of preconceived notions of what constitutes history writing.
Author : British Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215256681
The Durham Liber Vitae, a sumptuous manuscript created in ninth-century Northumbria containing lists of 3,000 names of royalty, aristocracy, and churchmen, is one of only three books of its type to survive from medieval Britain. Updated sporadically in the tenth and eleventh centuries, it became a repository for the names of monks at Durham Cathedral Priory up until the Dissolution, and later included the names of lay persons through the Middle Ages--some from the royalty and aristocracy, but many from much humbler levels of society. Durham Liber Vitae: The Complete Edition brings the Liber Vitae to life, unlocking its considerable potential for a range of studies in linguistics, religious history, and paleaeography. Supported by a high-resolution digital facsimile on CD-ROM, introductions to the manuscript, extensive indexes, and full linguistic commentaries on absolutely all recorded names, Durham Liber Vitae: The Complete Edition is an essential volume for scholars of medieval English history.
Author : Charles C. Rozier
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781903153949
An examination of the extraordinary texts produced by the community of St Cuthbert, showing how they were used to construct and define an identity.
Author : Rosamond McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521534364
This 2004 book looks at the writing and reading of history during the early middle ages.
Author : Peter Anthony Stokes
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781843843696
First full-scale examination of the phenomenon of the English Vernacular minuscule, analysing the full corpus and giving an account of its history and development.
Author : Cecily Clark
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783270101
First printed edition, with facsimile and studies, of a significant manuscript from medieval England.
Author : George Garnett
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198726166
At a time when the Battle of Hastings and Magna Carta have become common currency in political debate, this study of the role played by the Norman Conquest in English history between the eleventh and the seventeenth centuries is both timely and relevant.
Author : Janet Burton,Lynda Lockyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199675951
A critical edition, translation, and study of a historical narrative compiled at the Benedictine abbey of Selby in Yorkshire in 1174 by a monk of the community. It tells the story of a runaway monk of the French monastery of Auxerre, his travels to England, and his foundation of a hermitage on the banks of the River Ouse.
Author : Stephen Baxter,Catherine Karkov,Janet L. Nelson,David Pelteret
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351942492
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 : Stefany Wragg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000595222
This book offers the first dedicated and comprehensive examination of the lives of nearly thirty women known to occupy the office of queen in the English kingdoms between 650 and 850. The queens of early England are often shadowy figures in the historical record, beset by numerous issues which have largely confined them to the margins of history. Through careful analysis, the volume presents a ground-breaking appraisal of the role of queens in early England, and how their actions and identities shaped their practice of queenship. Organised thematically, it offers an overview of queens in many different roles, such as agents of Christianity, mothers, and peace-weavers. From high profile queens such as Æthelthryth of Ely and Cynethryth of Mercia, to the shadowy Leofrun of East Anglia and the nameless queen of Anna of East Anglia, the book engages with sources to advance fuller narratives about even the most obscure queens of the era. Aided by resources such as genealogical tables, Early English Queens, 650–850 is an ideal resource for students and scholars at all levels, as well general readers, interested in the lives of queens and early English history.
Author : Elma Brenner,Meredith Cohen,Mary Franklin-Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317097716
In medieval society and culture, memory occupied a unique position. It was central to intellectual life and the medieval understanding of the human mind. Commemoration of the dead was also a fundamental Christian activity. Above all, the past - and the memory of it - occupied a central position in medieval thinking, from ideas concerning the family unit to those shaping political institutions. Focusing on France but incorporating studies from further afield, this collection of essays marks an important new contribution to the study of medieval memory and commemoration. Arranged thematically, each part highlights how memory cannot be studied in isolation, but instead intersects with many other areas of medieval scholarship, including art history, historiography, intellectual history, and the study of religious culture. Key themes in the study of memory are explored, such as collective memory, the links between memory and identity, the fallibility of memory, and the linking of memory to the future, as an anticipation of what is to come.
Author : Andy King,Michael A. Penman
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843833185
Typical accounts of Anglo-Scottish relations during the 14th century tends to present a sustained period of bitter enmity. However, this book shows that the situation was far more complex. Drawing together new perspectives from leading researchers, the essays investigate the great complexity of the Anglo-Scottish tensions.
Author : Santha Bhattacharji,Dominic Mattos,Rowan Williams
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567082954
Examines social contexts of the Gospel and Epistles of John from the perspective of sociolinguistic theory of register, with reference to the Johannine Community model.
