Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages
Studies Presented to Henry Mayr-Harting
Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages
Studies Presented to Henry Mayr-Harting
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198208013
Number of Pages: 386
Published: 12/04/2001
Width: 16.4 cm
Height: 24.4 cm
Are there angels within spitting distance of men? What did Pope Gregory the Great think of pagans? Were the monks of Battle compulsive forgers? Is temptation always a bad thing? These and many other fascinating questions are explored in this book.
Commisssioned in honour of the distinguished medieval historian, Henry Mayr-Harting and reflecting the range and focus of its honorand's interests, the twenty-five essays provide a panoramic and stimulating exploration of the interrelated fields of belief and culture in the middle ages. Sanctity and sacred biography, seduction and temptation, forgery and litigation, patronage and art production, conversion and oppression were all part of the rich fabric of medieval Christian culture that is scrutinized here. Individually the studies shed new light on a series of key issues and questions relating to the cultural, religious, and political history of the sixth-century church, of Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, and of Carolingian, Ottonian, and Investiture Contest Europe; while collectively they illuminate the interaction of Christianity and politics, of secular and sacred, and of belief and culture from late antiquity to the thirteenth century.
Henry Mayr-Harting at Liverpool ; Teaching with Henry Mayr-Harting ; Principal Publications of Henry Mayr-Harting to 2000 ; 1. Angels, Monks, and Demons in the Early Medieval West ; 2. Gregory the Great's Pagans ; 3. The Annotations in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. D. II. 14 ; 4. Why Did Eadfrith Write the Lindisfarne Gospels? ; 5. Virgin Queens: Abbesses and Power in Early Anglo-Saxon England ; 6. Duke Tassilo of Bavaria and the Origins of the Rupertus Cross ; 7. The Voice of Charlemagne ; 8. True Teachers and Pious Kings: Salzburg, Louis of Bavaria, and Christian Order ; 9. No Bishop, No King: The Ministerial Ideology of Kingship and Asser's Res Gestae Aelfredi ; 10. The Strange Affair of the Selsey Bishopric, 953-963 ; 11. The Church of Worcester and St Oswald ; 12. Unity, Order, and Ottonian Kingship in the Thought of Abbo of Fleury ; 13. An Ottonian Sacramentary in Oxford ; 14. Events that Led to Sainthood: Sanctity and Reformers in the Eleventh Century ; 15. Pastorale pedum ante pedes apostolici posuit: Disinvestiture and Reinvestiture in the Era of the Investiture Contest ; 16. The Religious Patronage of Robert and William of Mortain ; 17. Ranulf Flambard and Christina of Markyate ; 18. Functions of a Twelfth-Century Recluse Revisited: The Case of Godric of Finchale ; 19. Robert of Lewes, Bishop of Bath 1136-1166: A Cluniac Bishop in his Diocese ; 20. King Henry II and the Monks of Battle: The Battle Chronicle Unmasked ; 21. The Letter-Writing of Archbishop Becket ; 22. Thomas Becket: Martyr, Saint - and Friend? ; 23. Two Concepts of Temptations ; 24. Peter of Poitiers's Compendium in Genealogia Christi: The Early English Copies ; 25. The Saint and the Operation of the Law: Reflections upon the Miracles of St Thomas Cantilupe ; Index of Manuscripts ; General Index
The strength of the volume is its repeated making new of old questions and matter, the scratching away of layers to reveal the vividness of an original text. * Revue d'Histoire Ecclesiastique * Truly a fitting tribute to a gifted teacher and noted scholar. * History * This collection is a coherent one which makes a quite particular contribution to medieval studies ... Henry Mayr-Harting's influence is present in every part of this collection ... This volume is a fitting tribute to a very distinguished scholar. * English Historical Review *
