Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages Studies Presented to Henry Mayr-Harting

by Gameson, Richard; Leyser, Henrietta

• ISBN13: 9780198208013
• ISBN10: 0198208014
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This collection of essays focuses on fundamental issues of Christian belief and culture in the Middle Ages. Ranging geographically from the Mediterranean to the Slav lands, and including the British Isles, the volume offers a panoramic exposition of medieval belief and culture.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	x
Abbreviations	xi
Notes on Contributors	xiii
Henry Mayr-Harting at Liverpool	1	(3)
Christopher Brooke
Teaching with Henry Mayr-Harting	4	(3)
Lawrence Goldman
Principal Publications of Henry Mayr-Harting to 2000	7	(2)
Angels, Monks, and Demons in the Early Medieval West	9	(14)
Conrad Leyser
Gregory the Great's Pagans	23	(12)
R. A. Markus
The Annotations in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. D. II. 14	35	(10)
David Ganz
Why Did Eadfrith Write the Lindisfarne Gospels?	45	(14)
Richard Gameson
Virgin Queens: Abbesses and Power in Early Anglo-Saxon England	59	(10)
Veronica Ortenberg
Duke Tassilo of Bavaria and the Origins of the Rupertus Cross	69	(7)
Anton Scharer
The Voice of Charlemagne	76	(13)
Janet L. Nelson
True Teachers and Pious Kings: Salzburg, Louis the German, and Christian Order	89	(17)
Stuart Airlie
No Bishop, No King: The Ministerial Ideology of Kingship and Asser's Res Gestae Aelfredi	106	(22)
Matthew Kempshall
The Strange Affair of the Selsey Bishopric, 953-963	128	(14)
Patrick Wormald
The Church of Worcester and St Oswald	142	(16)
Eric John
Unity, Order, and Ottonian Kingship in the Thought of Abbo of Fleury	158	(11)
Alison Peden
An Ottonian Sacramentary in Oxford	169	(18)
Martin Kauffmann
Events That Led To Sainthood: Sanctity and the Reformers in the Eleventh Century	187	(10)
Kathleen G. Cushing
Pastorale pedum ante pedes apostolici posuit: Dis- and Reinvestiture in the Era of the Investiture Contest	197	(14)
Timothy Reuter
The Religious Patronage of Robert and William of Mortain	211	(20)
Brian Golding
Ranulf Flambard and Christina of Markyate	231	(5)
R. I. Moore
Functions of a Twelfth-Century Recluse Revisited: The Case of Godric of Finchale	236	(15)
Susan J. Ridyard
Robert of Lewes, Bishop of Bath, 1136-1166: A Cluniac Bishop in his Diocese	251	(13)
Frances Ramsey
King Henry II and the Monks of Battle: The Battle Chronicle Unmasked	264	(23)
Nicholas Vincent
The Letter-Writing of Archbishop Becket	287	(18)
D. J. A. Matthew
Thomas Becket: Martyr, Saint--and Friend?	305	(13)
Julian Haseldine
Two Concepts of Temptation	318	(9)
Henrietta Leyser
Peter of Poitiers's Compendium in Genealogia Christi: The Early English Copies	327	(15)
Stella Panayotova
The Saint and the Operation of the Law: Reflections Upon the Miracles of St Thomas Cantilupe	342	(17)
Valerie I. J. Flint
Index of Manuscripts	359	(4)
General Index	363