The Anglo Saxon Church
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Author | : Alexander R. Rumble |
Publisher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1843837005 |
Essays bring out the important and complex roles played by Anglo-Saxon churchmen, including Bede and lesser-known figures. Both episcopal and abbatial authority were of fundamental importance to the development of the Christian church in Anglo-Saxon England. Bishops and heads of monastic houses were invested with a variety of types of power and influence. Their actions, decisions, and writings could change not only their own institutions, but also the national church, while their interaction with the king and his court affected wider contemporary society. Theories of ecclesiastical leadership were expounded in contemporary texts and documents. But how far did image or ideal reflect reality? How much room was there for individuals to use their office to promote new ideas? The papers in this volumeillustrate the important roles played by individual leading ecclesiastics in England, both within the church and in the wider political sphere, from the late seventh to the mid eleventh century. The undeniable authority of Bede and Bishop Æthelwold is demonstrated but also the influence of less-familiar figures such as Bishop Wulfsige of Sherborne, Archbishop Ecgberht of York and St Leoba. The book draws on both textual and material evidence to show the influence (by both deed and reputation) of powerful personalities not only on the developing institutions of the English church but also on the secular politics of their time. Contributors: Alexander R. Rumble, Nicholas J.Higham, Martyn J. Ryan, Cassandra Rhodes, Allan Scott McKinley, Dominik Wassenhoven, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Debby Banham, Joyce Hill.
Author | : John Blair |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 2005-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191518832 |
From the impact of the first monasteries in the seventh century, to the emergence of the local parochial system five hundred years later, the Church was a force for change in Anglo-Saxon society. It shaped culture and ideas, social and economic behaviour, and the organization of landscape and settlement. This book traces how the widespread foundation of monastic sites ('minsters') during c.670-730 gave the recently pagan English new ways of living, of exploiting their resources, and of absorbing European culture, as well as opening new spiritual and intellectual horizons. Through the era of Viking wars, and the tenth-century reconstruction of political and economic life, the minsters gradually lost their wealth, their independence, and their role as sites of high culture, but grew in stature as foci of local society and eventually towns. After 950, with the increasing prominence of manors, manor-houses, and village communities, a new and much larger category of small churches were founded, endowed, and rebuilt: the parish churches of the emergent eleventh- and twelfth-century local parochial system. In this innovative study, John Blair brings together written, topographical, and archaeological evidence to build a multi-dimensional picture of what local churches and local communities meant to each other in early England.
Author | : Henry Mayr-Harting |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0271038519 |
Author | : Paul Cavill |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Celtic Church |
ISBN | : 0006281125 |
Studying the impact of Christianity on the pagan Germanic warrior peoples who invaded Britain from the 5th century onwards, this text draws on historical evidence to describe the invading Anglo-Saxons' culture and beliefs.
Author | : Henry Soames |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1835 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Henry Soames |
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Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1844 |
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Author | : Stephanie Hollis |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780851153179 |
A fresh look at the position of women in the 8th and 9th centuries as defined by the literature of the early church.
Author | : Henry Soames |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2024-09-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385578434 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
Author | : Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham.) |
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Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 1844 |
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Author | : John Lingard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1845 |
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