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UNINA9910789685003321 |
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Titolo |
St. Oswald of Worcester : life and influence / / edited by Nicholas Brooks and Catherine Cubitt |
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London ; ; New York : , : Leicester University Press, , 1996 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-19690-5 |
9786613196903 |
0-567-34031-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvii, 365 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Collana |
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Studies in the early history of Britain |
The makers of England ; ; 2 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BrooksNicholas |
CubittCatherine |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Great Britain Church history 449-1066 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 communities; 13 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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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