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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Leicester University Press, , 1996
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 365 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 270.3/092; B
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Church history 449-1066
• Altri autori: BrooksNicholas CubittCatherine
• 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 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
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: St. Oswald of Worcester
• ISBN: 1-283-19690-5; 9786613196903; 0-567-34031-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812058103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Makers of England ; ; 2.; Studies in the early history of Britain.