Books in the Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland series

Reconstructs the late Anglo-Saxon history of the church of Worcester, covering the period between Bishops Waerferth and Wulfstan II. This volume also considers ecclesiastical organization and pastoral care in the diocese of Worcester, by looking at the relations between the cathedral church and the other churches in the diocese.

A study into the issue of vernacular names in Old English documents. It challenges the generally accepted notion that the sex of an individual is definitively indicated by the grammatical gender of their name. It is suitable for those with an interest in Old English manuscripts or early medieval history.

Based on two conferences on Alfred the Great held in 1999, this volume provides assessments, by leading scholars, of issues of source-criticism, of the large corpus of Old English literature associated with Alfred and of developments in government and society in late 9th century England.

Bede (c. 673-735) was Anglo-Saxon England's most prominent scholar, and his body of work is among the most important intellectual achievements of the entire Middle Ages. This book brings together a group of international scholars to examine a number of questions about Bede's changing attitudes towards, and ideas about.

Scholars have long been interested in the extent to which the Anglo-Saxon past can be understood using material written, and produced, in the twelfth century. This book examines how the Anglo-Saxon past continued to be re-used and recycled throughout the longue duree of the twelfth century, as opposed to the early decades that are usually covered.

In order to integrate early medieval Britain into the wider scholarly research into the history of emotions, this volume considers a range of methodologies and theoretical perspectives, examines the interplay of emotion and textuality, and explores how emotion is conveyed through gesture, interrogates emotions in religious devotional literature.

1999 marked the eleven-hundredth anniversary of the death of Alfred the Great, and to mark this event, two international conferences were held to re-evaluate and contextualise Alfred''s achievements and the developments of his reign. This volume includes papers given at both events and provides substantial assessments, by leading scholars, of issues of source-criticism, of the large corpus of Old English literature associated with Alfred and of developments in government and society in late ninth-century England. It also explores how Alfred and his kingdom related to the wider geo-political and cultural situation in the British isles and continental Europe, and closes with a substantial survey of the uses and shifts in Alfred''s reputation in the centuries following his death. This substantial and wide ranging volume will become a standard reference work for anyone interested in Old English literature or Anglo-Saxon history, and will set the pattern of future scholarly debate.

This volume consists of over twenty new essays written by friends, colleagues and pupils of Dr Mark Blackburn, Keeper of Coins and Medals at the Fitzwilliam Museum and Reader in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge, who died on 1 September 2011. As well as a fitting tribute to a remarkable scholar.

Christian theology and religious belief were crucially important to Anglo-Saxon society, yet this book is the first full-length study investigating how it permeated and underpinned society. For whilst the influence of the Church as an institution is widely acknowledged.

Patrick Wormald was a brilliant interpreter of the Early Middle Ages. This book presents a collection of studies devoted to the key themes that dominated his work: kingship; law and society; ethnic, religious, national and linguistic identities; and, the power of images, pictorial or poetic, in shaping political and religious institutions.