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Author: William M. Aird Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd ISBN: 9780851156156 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 344
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An alternative view of the Conquest and settlement from north-east England, charting relations between the monastic community and the invading Normans.
Author: William M. Aird Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd ISBN: 9780851156156 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 344
Book Description
An alternative view of the Conquest and settlement from north-east England, charting relations between the monastic community and the invading Normans.
Author: Charles C. Rozier Publisher: Boydell & Brewer ISBN: 1903153948 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 254
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An examination of the extraordinary texts produced by the community of St Cuthbert, showing how they were used to construct and define an identity.
Author: Dominic Marner Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 9780802035189 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 132
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Marner's important new book tells Cuthbert's story and examines one of the sumptuous illuminated Lives of Cuthbert produced during efforts to rejuvenate his cult in the face of the rising cult of Thomas Beckett in the late twelfth-century.
Author: Keith Stringer Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 131702253X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 309
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Modern historians of the Normans have tended to treat their enterprises and achievements as a series of separate and discrete histories. Such treatments are valid and valuable, but historical understanding of the Normans also depends as much on broader approaches akin to those adopted in this book. As the successor volume to Norman Expansion: Connections, Continuities and Contrasts, it complements and significantly extends its findings to provide a fuller appreciation of the roles played by the Normans as one of the most dynamic and transformative forces in the history of medieval ‘Outer Europe’. It includes panoramic essays that dissect the conceptual and methodological issues concerned, suggest strategies for avoiding associated pitfalls, and indicate how far and in what ways the Normans and their legacies served to reshape sociopolitical landscapes across a vast geography extending from the remoter corners of the British Isles to the Mediterranean basin. Leading experts in their fields also provide case-by-case analyses, set within and between different areas, of themes such as lordship and domination, identities and identification, naming patterns, marriage policies, saints’ cults, intercultural exchanges, and diaspora–homeland connections. The Normans and the ‘Norman Edge’ therefore presents a potent combination of thought-provoking overviews and fresh insights derived from new research, and its wide-ranging comparative focus has the advantage of illuminating aspects of the Norman past that traditional regional or national histories often do not reveal so clearly. It likewise makes a major contribution to current Norman scholarship by reconsidering the links between Norman expansion and ‘state-formation’; the extent to which Norman practices and priorities were distinctive; the balance between continuity and innovation; relations between the Normans and the indigenous peoples and cultures they encountered; and, not least, forms of Norman identity and their resilience over time. An extensive bibliography is also one of this book’s strengths.
Author: David Willem Publisher: Sacristy Press ISBN: 1908381159 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 110
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This book brings together accounts of the various openings of St Cuthbert's coffin and provides a unique history of the saint from his death to the present day.
Author: Katharine Tiernan Publisher: Sacristy Press ISBN: 1789591252 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 308
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Caught between the Northumbrian rebels and their brutal new Norman masters, the Community of St Cuthbert at Durham is struggling to survive. The final novel in the Cuthbert trilogy, set at the time of the Harrying of the North, tells the story of the survival of the shrine and the foundation of Durham Cathedral.
Author: J. Cohen Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230614124 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 245
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Through close readings of both familiar and obscure medieval texts, the contributors to this volume attempt to read England as a singularly powerful entity within a vast geopolitical network. This capacious world can be glimpsed in the cultural flows connecting the Normans of Sicily with the rulers of England, or Chaucer with legends arriving from Bohemia. It can also be seen in surprising places in literature, as when green children are discovered in twelfth-century Yorkshire or when Welsh animals begin to speak of the long history of their land s colonization. The contributors to this volume seek moments of cultural admixture and heterogeneity within texts that have often been assumed to belong to a single, national canon, discovering moments when familiar and bounded space erupt into unexpected diversity and infinite realms.
Author: Christiania Whitehead Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108802613 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 337
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This ambitious book presents the first sustained analysis of the evolving representation of Cuthbert, the premier saint of northern England. The study spans both major and neglected texts across eight centuries, from his earliest depictions in anonymous and Bedan vitae, through twelfth-century ecclesiastical histories and miracle collections produced at Durham, to his late medieval appearances in Latin meditations, legendaries, and vernacular verse. Whitehead reveals the coherence of these texts as one tradition, exploring the way that ideologies and literary strategies persist across generations. An innovative addition to the literature of insular spirituality and hagiography, The Afterlife of St Cuthbert emphasises the related categories of place and asceticism. It charts Cuthbert's conceptual alignment with a range of institutional, masculine, northern, and national spaces, and examines the distinctive characteristics and changing value of his ascetic lifestyle and environment - frequently constituted as a nature sanctuary - interrogating its relation to his other jurisdictions.
Author: Emma Mason Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 9781852853891 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 316
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Harold Godwineson was king of England from January 1066 until his death at Hastings in October of that year. For much of the reign of Edward the Confessor, who was married to Harold’s sister Eadgyth, the Godwine family, led by Earl Godwine, had dominated English politics. In The Rise and Fall of the House of Godwine, Emma Mason tells the turbulent story of a remarkable family which, until Harold’s unexpected defeat, looked far more likely than the dukes of Normandy to provide the long-term rulers of England. But for the Norman Conquest, an Anglo-Saxon England ruled by the Godwine dynasty would have developed very differently from that dominated by the Normans.
Author: William M. Aird
Author: William M. Aird
Author: Charles C. Rozier
Author: Dominic Marner
Author: Keith Stringer
Author: David Willem
Author: Katharine Tiernan
Author: J. Cohen
Author: Charles Eyre (Abp. of Glasgow)
Author: Christiania Whitehead
Author: Emma Mason