St. Oswald of Worcester
Life and Influence
St. Oswald of Worcester
Life and Influence
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780718500030
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 01/01/1996
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
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 were among the richest and best documented Anglo-Saxon churches. The volume provides a window onto the realities of tenth-century English politics, religion and economics in the light of contemporary continental developments.
St Oswald - monk, bishop and archbishop, Donald Bullough; Oswald, Fleury and the continental reform, John Nightingale; St Oswald's family and kin, Andrew Wareham; Byrthferth and Oswald, Michael Lapidge; the community of Worcester cathedral, 961- c1100, Julia Barrow; St Oswald and his tenants, Vanessa King; Oswaldlow - an "immunity"?, Patrick Wormald; the city of Worcester in the tenth century, Nigel Baker and Richard Holt; the administrative landscape of the city of Worcester in the tenth century, Steven Bassett; St Oswald and 10,000 West Midlands peasants, Christopher Dye; library and scriptorium in St Oswald's houses, David Dumville; Book production and decoration in the tenth and eleventh centuries, Richard Gameson; St Oswald and the cult of relics, Alan Thacker; St Oswald and St Wulfstan, Emma Mason; liturgical manuscripts in Oswald's houses, Alcia Correa; some reflections on liturgical music at late Anglo-Saxon Worcester, Susan Rankin.
