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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461829303321

Titolo

St. Oswald of Worcester [[electronic resource] ] : life and influence / / edited by Nicholas Brooks and Catherine Cubitt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Leicester University Press, 1996

ISBN

1-283-19690-5

9786613196903

0-567-34031-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Collana

Studies in the early history of Britain

The makers of England ; ; 2

Altri autori (Persone)

BrooksNicholas

CubittCatherine

Disciplina

270.3/092

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Soggetti

Electronic books.

Great Britain Church history 449-1066

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Preface; List of illustrations; List of abbreviations; 1 St Oswald: monk, bishop and archbishop; 2 Oswald, Fleury and continental reform; 3 St Oswald's family and kin; 4 Byrhtferth and Oswald; 5 The community of Worcester, 961-c.1100; 6 St Oswald's tenants; 7 Oswaldslow: an 'immunity'?; 8 The city of Worcester in the tenth century; 9 The administrative landscape of the diocese of Worcester in the tenth century; 10 St Oswald and 10,000 West Midland peasants; 11 Book production and decoration at Worcester in the tenth and eleventh centuries

12 Saint-making and relic collecting by Oswald and his communities13 St Oswald and St Wulfstan; 14 The liturgical manuscripts of Oswald's houses; 15 Some reflections on liturgical music at late Anglo-Saxon Worcester; Index; Index of charters; Index of manuscripts

Sommario/riassunto

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 Ethelwold, 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, researchers throw 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