The Medieval Cult of St Petroc

The Medieval Cult of St Petroc
Author: Karen Jankulak
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780851157771

The saint's cult casts light on relations between Cornwall and Brittany - and Henry II's empire - in the 12th century.

Saints' Cults in the Celtic World

Saints' Cults in the Celtic World
Author: Stephen I. Boardman
Publisher: Boydell Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 1843838451

Saints' cults flourished in the medieval world, and the phenomenon is examined here in a series of studies.

Early Christianity in South-West Britain

Early Christianity in South-West Britain
Author: Elizabeth Rees
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2020-03-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1911188585

This book offers a new assessment of early Christianity in south-west Britain from the fourth to the tenth centuries, a rich period which includes the transition from Roman to native British to Saxon models of church. The book will be based on evidence from archaeological excavations, early texts and recent critical scholarship and cover Wessex, Devon and Cornwall. In the south-west, Wessex provides the greatest evidence of Roman Christianity. The fifth-century Dorset villas of Frampton and Hinton St Mary, with their complex baptistery mosaics, indicate the presence of sophisticated Christian house churches. The fact that these two Roman villas are only 15 miles apart suggests a network of small Christian communities in this region. The author uses evidence from St Patrick’s fifth-century ‘Confessions’ to describe how members of a villa house church lived. Wessex was slowly Christianised: in Gloucestershire, the pagan healing sanctuary at Chedworth provides evidence of later use as a Christian baptistery; at Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire, a baptistery was dug into the mosaic floor of an imposing villa, which may by then have been owned by a bishop. In Somerset a number of recently excavated sites demonstrate the transition from a pagan temple to a Christian church. Beside the pagan temple at Lamyatt, later female burials suggest, unusually, a small monastic group of women. Wells cathedral grew beside the site of a Roman villa’s funeral chapel. In Street, a large oval enclosure indicates the probable site of a ‘Celtic’ monastery. Early Christian cemeteries have been excavated at Shepton Mallet and elsewhere. Lundy Island, off the Devon coast, provides evidence of a Celtic monastery, with its inscribed stones that commemorate early monks. At Exeter, a Saxon anthology includes numerous riddles, one of which describes in detail the production of an illuminated manuscript in a south-western monastery. Oliver Padel’s meticulous documentation of Cornish place-names has demonstrated that, of all the Celtic regions, Cornwall has by far the highest number of dedications to a single, otherwise unknown individual, typically consisting of a small church and a farm by the sea. These small monastic ‘cells’ have hitherto received little attention as a model of church in early British Christianity, and the latter part of the text focuses on various aspects of this model, as lived out in coastal and in upland settlements, on islands, and in relation to larger Breton monasteries. Study of 60 Breton sites has demonstrated possible connections between larger Breton monasteries and smaller Cornish cells.

Trioedd Ynys Prydein

Trioedd Ynys Prydein
Author: Rachel Bromwich
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 636
Release: 2014-11-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1783161477

Rachel Bromwich's magisterial edition of Trioedd Ynys Prydein has long won its place as a classic of Celtic studies. This revised edition shows the author's continued mastery of the subject, including a new preface by Morfydd Owen, and will be essential reading for Celticists and for those interested in early British history and literature and in Arthurian studies.

The Cult of Saints and the Virgin Mary in Medieval Scotland

The Cult of Saints and the Virgin Mary in Medieval Scotland
Author: Stephen I. Boardman
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 1843835622

A new investigation of the saints' cults which flourished in medieval Scotland, fruitfully combining archaeological, historical, and literary perspectives.

The Use of Hereford

The Use of Hereford
Author: Mr William Smith
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 865
Release: 2015-10-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 147241277X

The Use of Hereford, a local variation of the Roman rite, was one of the diocesan liturgies of medieval England before their abolition and replacement by the Book of Common Prayer in 1549. Unlike the widespread Use of Sarum, the Use of Hereford was confined principally to its diocese, which helped to maintain its individuality until the Reformation. This study seeks to catalogue and evaluate all the known surviving sources of the Use of Hereford, with particular reference to the missals and gradual, which so far have received little attention. In addition to these a variety of other material has been examined, including a number of little-known or unknown important fragments of early Hereford service-books dismembered at the Reformation and now hidden away as binding or other scrap in libraries and record offices.

Brittany and the Atlantic Archipelago, 450–1200

Brittany and the Atlantic Archipelago, 450–1200
Author: Caroline Brett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2021-10-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 110878657X

How did Brittany get its name and its British-Celtic language in the centuries after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire? Beginning in the ninth century, scholars have proposed a succession of theories about Breton origins, influenced by the changing relationships between Brittany, its Continental neighbours, and the 'Atlantic Archipelago' during and after the Viking age and the Norman Conquest. However, due to limited records, the history of medieval Brittany remains a relatively neglected area of research. In this new volume, the authors draw on specialised research in the history of language and literature, archaeology, and the cult of saints, to tease apart the layers of myth and historical record. Brittany retained a distinctive character within the typical 'medieval' forces of kingship, lordship, and ecclesiastical hierarchy. The early history of Brittany is richly fascinating, and this new investigation offers a fresh perspective on the region and early medieval Europe in general.

Signs of Devotion

Signs of Devotion
Author: Virginia Blanton
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0271047984

Wales and the Britons, 350-1064

Wales and the Britons, 350-1064
Author: T. M. Charles-Edwards
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 816
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198217315

The most detailed history of the Welsh from Late-Roman Britain to the eve of the Norman Conquest. Integrates the history of religion, language, and literature with the history of events.