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Author : Vladimir A. Moss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780913026342
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The Saints of Anglo-Saxon England written by Vladimir A. Moss and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janina Ramirez
Publisher : W H Allen
ISBN 13 : 9780753560327
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)
Download or read book The Private Lives of the Saints written by Janina Ramirez and published by W H Allen. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Femina 'Ramirez blasts a powerful spotlight into the so-called Dark Ages' - Dan Snow Skulduggery, power struggles and politics, The Private Lives of the Saints offers an original and fascinating re-examination of life in Anglo-Saxon England. Taking them down from the clouds of their heavenly status, Sunday Times bestselling author and renowned Oxford historian Dr Janina Ramirez explores the real lives of the legendary, seminal saints. This landmark book provides a unique and captivating new lens through which to explore the rich history of the Dark Ages.
Author : Paul E. Szarmach
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442646128
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England written by Paul E. Szarmach and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelve essays in this collection advance the contemporary study of the women saints of Anglo-Saxon England by challenging received wisdom and offering alternative methodologies. The work embraces a number of different scholarly approaches, from codicological study to feminist theory. While some contributions are dedicated to the description and reconstruction of female lives of saints and their cults, others explore the broader ideological and cultural investments of the literature. The volume concentrates on four major areas: the female saint in the Old English Martyrology, genre including hagiography and homelitic writing, motherhood and chastity, and differing perspectives on lives of virgin martyrs. The essays reveal how saints' lives that exist on the apparent margins of orthodoxy actually demonstrate a successful literary challenge extending the idea of a holy life.
Author : Cynthia Turner Camp
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843844028
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Saints Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England written by Cynthia Turner Camp and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives.
Author : David W. Rollason
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631165064
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Saints and Relics in Anglo-Saxon England written by David W. Rollason and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marc Morris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 164313535X
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Anglo-Saxons written by Marc Morris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble, and civil society collapsed into chaos. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and established themselves as its new masters. The Anglo-Saxons traces the turbulent history of these people across the next six centuries. It explains how their earliest rulers fought relentlessly against each other for glory and supremacy, and then were almost destroyed by the onslaught of the vikings. It explores how they abandoned their old gods for Christianity, established hundreds of churches and created dazzlingly intricate works of art. It charts the revival of towns and trade, and the origins of a familiar landscape of shires, boroughs and bishoprics. It is a tale of famous figures like King Offa, Alfred the Great and Edward the Confessor, but also features a host of lesser known characters - ambitious queens, revolutionary saints, intolerant monks and grasping nobles. Through their remarkable careers we see how a new society, a new culture and a single unified nation came into being. Drawing on a vast range of original evidence - chronicles, letters, archaeology and artefacts - renowned historian Marc Morris illuminates a period of history that is only dimly understood, separates the truth from the legend, and tells the extraordinary story of how the foundations of England were laid.
Author : Vladimir A. Moss
Publisher : Saint Nectarios Press
ISBN 13 : 9780913026328
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The Saints of Anglo-Saxon England written by Vladimir A. Moss and published by Saint Nectarios Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Loredana Lazzari
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503551999
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Hagiography in Anglo-Saxon England written by Loredana Lazzari and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers fourteen new essays devoted to Old English prose saints' lives from the late Anglo-Saxon period. Moving from diverse methodological approaches and building on the most recent developments in primary and secondary scholarship, the contributions comprehensively consider the texts and contexts of the vernacular hagiographic output both by Aelfric, the major hagiographer of his day, and by anonymous authors. By means of a comprehensive scrutiny of the Latin source-texts, including the often neglected Vitas Patrum, as well as of both the historical and manuscript context, this collection contributes to outline the late Anglo-Saxon sanctorale and to advance our knowledge of the literary culture and intellectual history of pre-Conquest England and beyond.Contributors: Roberta Bassi, Rolf H. Bremmer Jr., Claudio Cataldi, Catherine Cubitt, Giuseppe D. De Bonis, Maria Caterina De Bonis, Claudia Di Sciacca, Concetta Giliberto, Joyce Hill, Susan Irvine, Loredana Lazzari, Patrizia Lendinara, Rosalind Love, Winfried Rudolf
Author : Susan J. Ridyard
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521307727
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England written by Susan J. Ridyard and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1988 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within Anglo-Saxon England there was a strong and enduring tradition of royal sanctity - of men and women of royal birth who, in an age before the development of papal canonisation, came to be venerated as saints by the regional church. This study, which focuses on some of the best-documented cults of the ancient kingdoms of Wessex and East Anglia, is a contribution towards understanding the growth and continuing importance of England's royal cults. The author examines contemporary and near-contemporary theoretical interpretations of the relationship between royal birth and sanctity, analyses in depth the historical process of cult-creation, and addresses the problem of continuity of cult in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest of 1066. An understanding therefore emerges of the place of the English royal saint not only in Anglo-Saxon society but also in that of the Anglo-Norman realm.
Author : John Hunt
Publisher : History West Midlands
ISBN 13 : 1905036310
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Warriors, Warlords and Saints written by John Hunt and published by History West Midlands. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglo-Saxon Mercia was a great power in its day, although many aspects of it have been shrouded in myth and mystery. However, recent discoveries, such as the Staffordshire Hoard and the Lichfield Angel, have shone a fascinating light into the world of Mercia and the Mercians. In Warriors, Warlords and Saints: The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia, author John Hunt uses this evidence to paint a vivid picture of this political and cultural powerhouse which, at the height of its influence, ruled over much of England, and reached out across Europe into the Middle East. The Mercians themselves were complex. They were a force capable of both great violence and great art, fostering the embryonic English Church and yet fighting bloody wars with the rival kingdoms of Wessex, Northumbria and East Anglia. The story of the Mercians is integral to the story of Anglo-Saxon England, from the end of Roman rule to the Norman invasion. It was a land peopled by ruthless kings, great ladies, brave warriors and famous saints who lived at a vital and compelling time in English history with Mercia at its heart.
Author : Clare A. Lees
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452903880
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Tradition and Belief written by Clare A. Lees and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major study of Angle-Saxon religious tests sermons, homilies, and saints' lives written in Old English -- Clare A. Lees reveals how the invention of preaching transformed the early medieval church, and thus the culture of medieval England in placing Anglo-Saxon prose within a social matrix, her work offers a new way of seeing medieval literature through the lens of cultures. To show how the preaching mission of the later Anglo-Saxon church was constructed and received, Lees explores the emergence of preaching from the traditional structures of the early medieval church -- its institutional knowledge, genres, and beliefs. Understood as a powerful rhetorical, social, and epistemological process, preaching is shown to have helped define the sociocultural concerns specific to late Anglo-Saxon England. The first detailed study of traditionality in medieval culture, Tradition and Belief is also a case study of one cultural phenomenon from the past. As such -- and by concentrating on the theoretically problematic areas of history, religious belief, and aesthetics -- the book contributes to debates about the evolving meaning of culture.
Author : Vladimir A. Moss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780913026359
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The Saints of Anglo-Saxon England written by Vladimir A. Moss and published by . This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Annie Whitehead
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526748126
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England written by Annie Whitehead and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little-known lives of women who ruled, schemed, and made peace and war, between the seventh and eleventh centuries: “Meticulously researched.” —Catherine Hanley, author of Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior Many Anglo-Saxon kings are familiar. Æthelred the Unready is one—but less is written about his wife, who was consort of two kings and championed one of her sons over the others, or about his mother, who was an anointed queen and powerful regent, but was also accused of witchcraft and regicide. A royal abbess educated five bishops and was instrumental in deciding the date of Easter; another took on the might of Canterbury and Rome and was accused by the monks of fratricide. Royal mothers wielded power: Eadgifu, wife of Edward the Elder, maintained a position of authority during the reigns of both her sons. Æthelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, was a queen in all but name, while few have heard of Queen Seaxburh, who ruled Wessex, or Queen Cynethryth, who issued her own coinage. She, too, was accused of murder, and was also, like many of the royal women, literate and highly educated. Ranging from seventh-century Northumbria to eleventh-century Wessex and making extensive use of primary sources, Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England examines the lives of individual women in a way that has often been done for the Anglo-Saxon men but not for their wives, sisters, mothers, and daughters.
Author : William A. Chaney
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520014015
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Cult of Kingship in Anglo-Saxon England written by William A. Chaney and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eleanor Parker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350287067
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Conquered written by Eleanor Parker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Outstanding." - The Sunday Times "Beautifully written." The Times "Superbly adroit." The Spectator "Excellent." BBC History Magazine The Battle of Hastings and its aftermath nearly wiped out the leading families of Anglo-Saxon England – so what happened to the children this conflict left behind? Conquered offers a fresh take on the Norman Conquest by exploring the lives of those children, who found themselves uprooted by the dramatic events of 1066. Among them were the children of Harold Godwineson and his brothers, survivors of a family shattered by violence who were led by their courageous grandmother Gytha to start again elsewhere. Then there were the last remaining heirs of the Anglo-Saxon royal line – Edgar Ætheling, Margaret, and Christina – who sought refuge in Scotland, where Margaret became a beloved queen and saint. Other survivors, such as Waltheof of Northumbria and Fenland hero Hereward, became legendary for rebelling against the Norman conquerors. And then there were some, like Eadmer of Canterbury, who chose to influence history by recording their own memories of the pre-conquest world. From sagas and saints' lives to chronicles and romances, Parker draws on a wide range of medieval sources to tell the stories of these young men and women and highlight the role they played in developing a new Anglo-Norman society. These tales – some reinterpreted and retold over the centuries, others carelessly forgotten over time – are ones of endurance, adaptation and vulnerability, and they all reveal a generation of young people who bravely navigated a changing world and shaped the country England was to become.
Author : Martin Brett
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472428196
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)
Download or read book The Long Twelfth-Century View of the Anglo-Saxon Past written by Martin Brett and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have long been interested in the extent to which the Anglo-Saxon past can be understood using material written, and produced, in the twelfth century; and simultaneously in the continued importance (or otherwise) of the Anglo-Saxon past in the generations following the Norman Conquest of England. In order to better understand these issues, this volume provides a series of essays that moves scholarship forward in two significant ways. Firstly, it scrutinises how the Anglo-Saxon past continued to be reused and recycled throughout the longue durée of the twelfth century, as opposed to the early decades that are usually covered. Secondly, by bringing together scholars who are experts in various different scholarly disciplines, the volume deals with a much broader range of historical, linguistic, legal, artistic, palaeographical and cultic evidence than has hitherto been the case. Divided into four main parts: The Anglo-Saxon Saints; Anglo-Saxon England in the Narrative of Britain; Anglo-Saxon Law and Charter; and Art-history and the French Vernacular, it scrutinises the majority of different genres of source material that are vital in any study of early medieval British history. In so doing the resultant volume will become a standard reference point for students and scholars alike interested in the ways in which the Anglo-Saxon past continued to be of importance and interest throughout the twelfth century.
Author : Michael Lapidge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521259029
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)
Download or read book Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England written by Michael Lapidge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An collection of essays by specialists in the field examining Anglo-Saxon learning and text interpretation and transmission.
