Bishop Aethelwold

by Yorke, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780851157054
• ISBN10: 085115705X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-05-01
• Publisher: Boydell Pr

Summary

Æthelwold's life and his political and ecclesiastical importance in the 10th-century reformation receive thorough scholarly scrutiny in this appraisal of his life and work. The studies include a comparison of Æthelwold's career with that of other European monastic reformers; a study of Æthelwold's foundation at Abingdon; and of his involvement with the political crises of the 10th century. Æthelwold's skills as a scholar are assessed through surviving Latin and Old Englist texts, and as a teacher from the writings of his pupils. The scholarly work of his foundations is highlighted by a detailed study of the text of the Benedictional of St Æthelwold; other essays look at the music and sculpture performed and produced at Æthelwold's foundations.Contributors: PATRICK WORMALD, ALAN THACKER, BARBARA YORKE, MICHAEL LAPIDGE, ANDREW PRESCOTT, MARY BERRY, ELIZABETH COATSWORTH

Table of Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FOREWORD
ABBREVIATIONS
Introduction	1	(12)
Barbara Yorke
Chapter 1 AEthelwold and his Continental Counterparts: Contact, Comparison, Contrast	13	(30)
Patrick Wormald
Chapter 2 AEthelwold and Abingdon	43	(22)
Alan Thacker
Chapter 3 AEthelwold and the Politics of the Tenth Century	65	(24)
Barbara Yorke
Chapter 4 AEthelwold as Scholar and Teacher	89	(30)
Michael Lapidge
Chapter 5 The Text of the Benedictional of St AEthelwold	119	(30)
Andrew Prescott
Chapter 6 What the Saxon Monks Sang: Music in Winchester in the late Tenth Century	149	(12)
Mary Berry
Chapter 7 Late Pre-Conquest Sculptures with the Crucifixion South of the Humber	161	(33)
Elizabeth Coatsworth
PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONS SINCE 1986	194	(3)
INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS	197	(2)
GENERAL INDEX	199