St Oswald of Worcester

by Brooks, Nicholas; Cubitt, Catherine

• ISBN13: 9780718500030
• ISBN10: 0718500032
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-09-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic

Summary

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 AEthelwold, 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 the researches of a team of leading scholars throw new 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 therefore provides a window on to the realities of tenth-century English politics, religion and economics in the light of contemporary developments on the continent.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
List of illustrations
List of abbreviations
St Oswald: monk, bishop and archbishop	p. 1
Oswald, Fleury and continental reform	p. 23
St Oswald's family and kin	p. 46
Byrhtferth and Oswald	p. 64
The community of Worcester, 961-c.1100	p. 84
St Oswald's tenants	p. 100
Oswaldslow: an 'immunity'?	p. 117
The city of Worcester in the tenth century	p. 129
The administrative landscape of the diocese of Worcester in the tenth century	p. 147
St Oswald and 10,000 West Midland peasants	p. 174
Book production and decoration at Worcester in the tenth and eleventh centuries	p. 194
Saint-making and relic collecting by Oswald and his communities	p. 244
St Oswald and St Wulfstan	p. 269
The liturgical manuscripts of Oswald's houses	p. 285
Some reflections on liturgical music at late Anglo-Saxon Worcester	p. 325
Index	p. 349
Index of charters	p. 362
Index of manuscripts	p. 364
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