Liturgy, Literature, and History
Oswald of Northumbria and the Cult of Saints in the Middle Ages
Liturgy, Literature, and History
Oswald of Northumbria and the Cult of Saints in the Middle Ages
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Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9781836245681
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 21/10/2025
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
The centrality of the cult of saints to medieval Christianity is reflected in surviving liturgical, historical, literary and administrative texts, material culture and architecture. Too often, however, disciplinary boundaries mean these sources are studied in isolation from one another. This volume takes a multi-disciplinary approach to uncover both the mechanisms by which saints’ cults spread and also the manner in which veneration of the saints drove other forms of political, cultural and social expression. Focussed on the cult of Oswald of Northumbria in the high Middle Ages, this volume brings together historians, literary scholars, musicologists and art historians to explore the cult of saints through texts, objects, space, sound and the senses and particularly interrogates the influence of liturgy on society. Oswald’s cult spread far in time and space from its origins in seventh-century Northumbria, and the essays in this volume seek to understand how liturgical commemoration and celebration of Oswald in different times and places drove developments in cultural expression, initiating new styles in musical as well as visual and material art forms.
List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Abbreviations Acknowledgements
Introduction: Liturgy, Literature and History Johanna Dale
Part I: Oswald’s cult in Post-Conquest England 1. The Cult of Oswald in Twelfth-Century Durham Lauren L. Whitnah
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Towards a New Edition of Hugh Candidus’s Peterborough Chronicle Nicholas Karn
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Public Reading and the Celebration of the Feast of St Oswald at Peterborough in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries Teresa Webber
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King Oswald’s Arm: Liturgy and Material Culture at Peterborough Abbey Johanna Dale
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Oswald and Post-Conquest Kingship, 1066–1307 Nicholas Vincent
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The Imagery of King Oswald in Medieval England Julian Luxford
Part II Oswald’s Continental Connections 7. The Transmission of Oswald’s Liturgy into Scandinavia Sean Dunnahoe
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The Liturgical Offices of St Oswald at Weingarten and a New Hypothesis for the Origins of the ‘Continental’ Historia Henry Parkes
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The Lives of Oswald and other English Saints in the Twelfth-Century Magnum Legendarium Austriacum Diarmuid Ó Riain
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St Oswald’s Raven: Sanctity, Sovereignty and Animality in the Munich Oswald Sarah Bowden
Excursus: Old and New in the Liturgical Chants for the Feast of St Oswald at Peterborough: Musical Transcriptions David Hiley
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