Liturgy and the Ecclesiastical History of Late Anglo-Saxon England

Liturgy and the Ecclesiastical History of Late Anglo-Saxon England

Author: D. N. Dumville

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780851153315

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His work demonstrates the importance of these neglected sources for our understanding of the late Old English church.' HISTORYAn important book of immense erudition. It brings into the open some major issues of Late Anglo-Saxon history, and gives a thorough overview of the detailed source material. When such outstanding learning is being used, through intuitive perception, to bear on the wider issues such as popular devotion and the reception of the monastic reform in England, and bold conclusions are bing drawn from such minutely detailed studies, there is no doubt that David Dumville's contribution in this area of study becomes invaluable. The sources for the liturgy of late Anglo-Saxon England have a distinctive shape. Very substantial survival has given us the possibility of understanding change and perceiving significant continuity, as well as identifying local preferences and peculiarities. One major category of evidence is provided by a corpus of more than twenty kalendars: some of these (and particularly those which have been associated with Glastonbury Abbey) are subjected to close examination here, the process contributing both negatively and positively to the history of ecclesiastical renewal in the 10th century. Another significant body of manuscripts comprises books for episcopal use, especially pontificals: these are examined here as a group, and their associations with specific prelates and churches considered. All these investigations tend to suggest the centrality of the church of Canterbury in the surviving testimony and presumptively therefore in the history of late Anglo-Saxon christianity. Historians' study of English liturgy in this period has heretofore concentrated on the development of coronation-rites: by pursuing palaeographical and textual enquiries, the author has sought to make other divisions of the subject respond to historical questioning. Dr DAVID N. DUMVILLEis Reader in the Early Mediaeval History and Culture of the British Isles at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Girton College.


Anglo-Saxon Exeter

Anglo-Saxon Exeter

Author: Patrick W. Conner

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780851153070

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A study of the manuscripts, relics and historical traditions of Anglo-Saxon Exeter before Leofric moved the see of Devon and Cornwall there in 1050.


The Dramatic Liturgy of Anglo-Saxon England

The Dramatic Liturgy of Anglo-Saxon England

Author: M. Bradford Bedingfield

Publisher: Boydell Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780851158730

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Liturgical rituals of the high festivals from Christmas to Ascension in late Anglo-Saxon England; liturgical practice derived from from vernacular homilies and sermons.


The Liturgy in Medieval England

The Liturgy in Medieval England

Author: Richard W. Pfaff

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-09-24

Total Pages: 623

ISBN-13: 1139482920

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This book provides a comprehensive historical treatment of the Latin liturgy in medieval England. Richard Pfaff constructs a history of the worship carried out in churches - cathedral, monastic, or parish - primarily through the surviving manuscripts of service books, and sets this within the context of the wider political, ecclesiastical, and cultural history of the period. The main focus is on the mass and daily office, treated both chronologically and by type, the liturgies of each religious order and each secular 'use' being studied individually. Furthermore, hagiographical and historiographical themes - respectively, which saints are prominent in a given witness and how the labors of scholars over the last century and a half have both furthered and, in some cases, impeded our understandings - are explored throughout. The book thus provides both a narrative account and a reference tool of permanent value.


Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 37

Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 37

Author: Malcolm Godden

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-11-05

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780521767361

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Anglo-Saxon England is the only publication which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture - linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic - and which promotes the more unusual interests - in music or medicine or education, for example. Articles in volume 37 include: Record of the thirteenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, 30 July to 4 August 2007; The virtues of rhetoric: Alcuin's Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus; King Edgar's charter for Pershore (972); Lost voices from Anglo-Saxon Lichfield; The Old English Promissio Regis; 'lfric, the Vikings, and an anonymous preacher in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College (162); Re-evaluating base-metal artifacts: an inscribed lead strap-end from Crewkerne, Somerset; Anglo-Saxon and related entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004); Bibliography for 2007.


Authority and Power

Authority and Power

Author: B. Tierney

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-07-19

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1107404568

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In this 1980 volume, friends and former pupils of Walter Ullmann contribute essays on subjects originally studied under his supervision.


Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature

Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature

Author: Ananya Jahanara Kabir

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-12-13

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1139432443

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How did the Anglo-Saxons conceptualize the interim between death and Doomsday? In this 2001 book, Ananya Jahanara Kabir presents an investigation into the Anglo-Saxon belief in the 'interim paradise': paradise as a temporary abode for good souls following death and pending the final decisions of Doomsday. She locates the origins of this distinctive sense of paradise within early Christian polemics, establishes its Anglo-Saxon development as a site of contestation and compromise, and argues for its post-Conquest transformation into the doctrine of purgatory. In ranging across Old English prose and poetry as well as Latin apocrypha, exegesis, liturgy, prayers and visions of the otherworld, and combining literary criticism with recent scholarship in early medieval history, early Christian theology and history of ideas, this book is essential reading for scholars of Anglo-Saxon England, historians of Christianity, and all those interested in the impact of the Anglo-Saxon period on the later Middle Ages.