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St. Oswald of Worcester : life and influence

Title: St. Oswald of Worcester : life and influence / edited by Nicholas Brooks and Catherine Cubitt.
Publication: London ; New York : Leicester University Press, 1996.

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Description

xvii, 365 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

St Oswald was the youngest of the three great monastic reformers of tenth-century England whose work transformed English religious, intellectual and political life. Certainly a more attractive, and perhaps a more effective, figure than either St Dunstan or St AEthelwold, Oswald's impact upon his cathedrals at Worcester and York and upon his West Midland and East Anglian monasteries was radical and lasting. In this volume the researches of a team of leading scholars throw new light on St Oswald's background, career, influence and cult and on the society that he helped to shape. His cathedral at Worcester and his monastery at Ramsey were among the richest and best documented Anglo-Saxon churches. The volume therefore provides a window on to the realities of tenth-century English politics, religion and economics in the light of contemporary developments on the continent.

Series Statement

Studies in the early history of Britain
The makers of England ; 2

Uniform Title

Studies in the early history of Britain
Makers of England ; 2.

Alternative Title

Saint Oswald of Worcester

Subject

Genre/Form

Church history.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

St. Oswald : monk, bishop and archbishop / Donald Bullough -- Oswald, Fleury and continental reform / John Nightingale -- St. Oswald's family and kin / Andrew Wareham -- Byrhtferth and Oswald / Michael Lapidge -- The community of Worcester, 961-c.1100 / Julia Barrow -- St. Oswald's tenants / Vanessa King -- Oswaldslow : an 'immunity'? / Patrick Wormald -- The city of Worcester in the tenth century / Nigel Baker and Richard Holt -- The administrative landscape of the diocese of Worcester in the tenth century / Steven Bassett -- St. Oswald and 10,000 West Midland peasants / Christopher Dyer -- Book production and decoration at Worcester in the tenth and eleventh centuries / Richard Gameson -- Saint-making and relic collecting by Oswald and his communities / Alan Thacker -- St. Oswald and St. Wulfstan / Emma Mason -- The liturgical manuscripts of Oswald's houses / Alicia Corrêa -- Some reflections on liturgical music at late Anglo-Saxon Worcester / Susan Rankin.

ISBN

0718500032
9780718500030

LCCN

95023869

OCLC

ocm32927309
32927309
SCSB-2075477

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library