Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald

by Baxter,Stephen; Baxter,Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780754663317
• ISBN10: 0754663310
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781351942492
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-28
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Patrick Wormald was a brilliant interpreter of the Early Middle Ages, whose teaching, writings and generous friendship inspired a generation of historians and students of politics, law, language, literature and religion to focus their attention upon the world of the Anglo-Saxons and the Franks. Leading British, American and continental scholars - his colleagues, friends and pupils - here bear witness to his seminal influence by presenting a collection of studies devoted to the key themes that dominated his work: kingship; law and society; ethnic, religious, national and linguistic identities; the power of images, pictorial or poetic, in shaping political and religious institutions.Closely mirroring the interests of their honorand, the collection not only underlines Patrick Wormald's enormous contribution to the field of Anglo-Saxon studies, but graphically demonstrates his belief that early medieval England and Anglo-Saxon law could only be understood against a background of research into contemporary developments in the nearby Welsh, Scottish, Irish and Frankish kingdoms. He would have been well pleased, therefore, that this volume should make such significant advances in our understanding of the world of Bede, of the dynasty of King Alfred, and also of the workings of English law between the seventh and the twelfth century. Moreover he would have been particularly delighted at the rich comparisons and contrasts with Celtic societies offered here and with the series of fundamental reassessments of aspects of Carolingian Francia.Above all these studies present fundamental reinterpretations, not only of published written sources and their underlying manuscript evidence, but also of the development of some of the dominant ideas of that era. In both their scope and the quality of the scholarship, the collection stands as a fitting tribute to the work and life of Patrick Wormald and his lasting contribution to early medieval studies

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Patrick Wormald: The writings of Patrick Wormald

Patrick Wormald as historian

Patrick Wormald: the teacher

Living with Patrick

Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Foundations: Archipelagic thoughts: comparing early medieval polities in Britain and Ireland

Celtic kings: 'priestly vegetables'?

The Bretwaldas and the origins of overlordship in Anglo-Saxon England

Royal and Ecclesiastical law in 7th-century Kent

Gregory and Bede: Divine justice in Gregory the Great's Dialogues

Bede, the Britons and the book of Samuel

Bede and Benedict of Nursia

After Bede: continuing the Ecclesiastical History

Chosen arrows, first hidden then revealed: the visitation-archer sequence as a key to the unity of the Ruthwell cross

Carolingian Authority and Learning: Alcuin, Charlemagne and the problem of sanctions

'For it is written in the law': Ansegis and the writing of Carolingian royal authority

Kings, clergy and dogma: the settlement of doctrinal disputes in the Carolingian world

Carolingian missi and their books

Charlemagne's daughters

Hrabanus Maurus in Anglo-Saxon England: in honorem sanctae crusis

English Politics and Law (9th-12th centuries): The Fonthill letter: Ealdorman Ordlaf and Anglo-Saxon law in practice

An anonymous historian of Edward the Elder's reign

Reform and retribution: the 'anti-monastic reaction' in the reign of Edward the Martyr

Ðonne se cirlisca man ordales weddiged: the Anglo-Saxon lay ordeal

Trial by ordeal in Anglo-Saxon England: what's the problem with barley?

Lordship and justice in late Anglo-Saxon England: the judicial functions of soke and commendation revisited

The Making of English Law and the varieties of legal history

Liturgy or law: misconceived alternatives?

Church, Cult and Memory in England: King Æthelred's charter for Eynsham Abbey (1005)

Si litterali memorie commendaretur: memory and cartularies in 11th-century Worcester

Emma's Greek scrine

Emma: image and ideology

The bishop's book: Leofric's homiliary and 11th-century Exeter

The dangerous dead in early medieval England

Indexes

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