Essays bring out the important and complex roles played by Anglo-Saxon churchmen, including Bede and lesser-known figures
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…
Essays bring out the important and complex roles played by Anglo-Saxon churchmen, including Bede and lesser-known figures.
The first full-length study of the Old English version of Bede's masterwork, dealing with one of the most important texts to survive from Anglo-Saxon England. The subjects treated range from a detailed analysis of the manuscripts and the medieval use of them to a very satisfying…
The author argues that its reading reflects an ecclesiastical setting more than a political one, with uses more hagiographical than royal; and that rather than being used as a class-book or crib, it functioned as a resource for vernacular preaching, as a corpus of vernacular sai…
This is an examination of the Old English version of Bede's 'Historia ecclesiastica' and its reception in the Middle Ages, from a theoretically informed, multi-disciplinary perspective.
"Pioneering examination of the Old English version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica and its reception in the middle ages, from a theoretically informed, multi-disciplinary perspective. The Old English version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum is one of the earlies…
Priests and their books in late Anglo-Saxon England
"Priests were ubiquitous figures in the Anglo-Saxon world: they acted as educators, agents of royal authority, scribes, and dealers in real estate. But what set priests apart from the society in which they lived was the authority to provide pastoral care and their ability to use…
Priests and their books in late Anglo-Saxon England
Priests and their books in late Anglo-Saxon England
"Priests were ubiquitous figures in the Anglo-Saxon world: they acted as educators, agents of royal authority, scribes, and dealers in real estate. But what set priests apart from the society in which they lived was the authority to provide pastoral care and their ability to use…