The Royal Saints Of Anglo Saxon England

Author : Susan J. Ridyard
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521307727
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England written by Susan J. Ridyard and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1988 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within Anglo-Saxon England there was a strong and enduring tradition of royal sanctity - of men and women of royal birth who, in an age before the development of papal canonisation, came to be venerated as saints by the regional church. This study, which focuses on some of the best-documented cults of the ancient kingdoms of Wessex and East Anglia, is a contribution towards understanding the growth and continuing importance of England's royal cults. The author examines contemporary and near-contemporary theoretical interpretations of the relationship between royal birth and sanctity, analyses in depth the historical process of cult-creation, and addresses the problem of continuity of cult in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest of 1066. An understanding therefore emerges of the place of the English royal saint not only in Anglo-Saxon society but also in that of the Anglo-Norman realm.

Author : Janina Ramirez
Publisher : W H Allen
ISBN 13 : 9780753560327
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Private Lives of the Saints written by Janina Ramirez and published by W H Allen. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Femina 'Ramirez blasts a powerful spotlight into the so-called Dark Ages' - Dan Snow Skulduggery, power struggles and politics, The Private Lives of the Saints offers an original and fascinating re-examination of life in Anglo-Saxon England. Taking them down from the clouds of their heavenly status, Sunday Times bestselling author and renowned Oxford historian Dr Janina Ramirez explores the real lives of the legendary, seminal saints. This landmark book provides a unique and captivating new lens through which to explore the rich history of the Dark Ages.

Author : Harry Altmann
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656928029
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kingship in Anglo-Saxon England. A Comparison of Oswald and Edmund as Royal Saints written by Harry Altmann and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-03-25 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, University of Münster (Anglistik), language: English, abstract: The basic form of society in Anglo-Saxon England was a kingdom. Over the centuries the movement was away from many small units to larger kingdoms controlling greater populations. The first kings were pagan and when Christianity became established the Christian kings kept many of the characteristics of their pagan forebears. The Christian kings continued to be primarily military leaders. A cult of martyrs arose in Anglo-Saxon England which included Christian kings who had died either in battle or in defence of Christianity. Other royal saints followed a different path to sainthood by leading exemplary Christian lives. Many saints’ lives composed in Latin circulated in Anglo-Saxon England but it was the monk and author Ælfric of Eynsham who translated a collection of saints’ lives into Old English. In particular this paper will deal with the lives of St Edmund and St Oswald. After a brief introduction to the lives of these two saints an analysis of the two concepts of vita and passio follows. Then the general and syntactic linguistic structure of both texts is examined. Finally a comparison of the deaths of St Oswald and St Edmund illustrates the difference in approach of these writings.

Author : Vladimir A. Moss
Publisher : Saint Nectarios Press
ISBN 13 : 9780913026328
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Saints of Anglo-Saxon England written by Vladimir A. Moss and published by Saint Nectarios Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David W. Rollason
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631165064
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saints and Relics in Anglo-Saxon England written by David W. Rollason and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cynthia Turner Camp
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843844028
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Saints Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England written by Cynthia Turner Camp and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives.

Author : Aubrey De Vere
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.ZL/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legends of the Saxon Saints written by Aubrey De Vere and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Annie Whitehead
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526748126
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England written by Annie Whitehead and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little-known lives of women who ruled, schemed, and made peace and war, between the seventh and eleventh centuries: “Meticulously researched.” —Catherine Hanley, author of Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior Many Anglo-Saxon kings are familiar. Æthelred the Unready is one—but less is written about his wife, who was consort of two kings and championed one of her sons over the others, or about his mother, who was an anointed queen and powerful regent, but was also accused of witchcraft and regicide. A royal abbess educated five bishops and was instrumental in deciding the date of Easter; another took on the might of Canterbury and Rome and was accused by the monks of fratricide. Royal mothers wielded power: Eadgifu, wife of Edward the Elder, maintained a position of authority during the reigns of both her sons. Æthelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, was a queen in all but name, while few have heard of Queen Seaxburh, who ruled Wessex, or Queen Cynethryth, who issued her own coinage. She, too, was accused of murder, and was also, like many of the royal women, literate and highly educated. Ranging from seventh-century Northumbria to eleventh-century Wessex and making extensive use of primary sources, Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England examines the lives of individual women in a way that has often been done for the Anglo-Saxon men but not for their wives, sisters, mothers, and daughters.

Author : Mechthild Gretsch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511140310
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England written by Mechthild Gretsch and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mechthild Gretsch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511312229
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England written by Mechthild Gretsch and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: