[PDF] Bosworth Psalter eBook

Author : University of Toronto. Centre for Medieval Studies
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 17,5 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780802044709

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The first of three volumes, this book is an edition of forty psalters written or owned in Anglo-Saxon England, half of which are glossed in Old English. The work is an invaluable tool for comparative gloss scholarship, for the study of the influence of vocabulary, the interpretation of glosses, the study of relations among psalters, and the study of the Latin text of the psalms in Anglo-Saxon England. It also presents new insights on the development of centres of learning and the impact of the psalter on literary tradition. Each volume addresses a group of fifty psalms. This landmark in Old English studies is the first attempt at a completely comprehensive edition. As an original and much-needed contribution to early medieval scholarship, it not only provides a standard edition of texts based on all known Anglo-Saxon psalters but also synthesizes many studies of psalter scholarship from the earliest times.

Author : William Noel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521464956

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A study of the making of the Harley Psalter at Christ Church Canterbury c.1020-1130.

Author : Richard Eales
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781852850685

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When William I and his army arrived in Canterbury they found a powerful and long-established ecclesiastical centre, whose traditions and culture differed in many respects from those of Normandy. The Conquest brought dramatic change: Archbishop Stigand was deprived in 1070 to be replaced by the Norman abbot Lanfranc; Canterbury Cathedral itself was burnt down in 1067 and rebuilt in a Norman style. But in the following years Canterbury's position in the English church was preserved and enhanced and Norman churchmen came to appreciate more fully the importance of their English inheritance. These original essays provide a reassessment of this subject reflecting modern interests and research. They discuss the political setting of Canterbury and its churches, both locally and nationally, the aims and achievements of its leaders, the cults of its saints and many aspects of its artistic achievement. Together they bring into focus what is a crucial test case for the impact of the Norman Conquest on English politics, society and culture.

Author : Mechthild Gretsch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 25,52 MB
Release : 1999-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139425390

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This book explores the intellectual foundations of the Benedictine reform in tenth-century England. It examines the importance of the vernacular at Bishop Æthelwold's influential Winchester school. Æthelwold's early career is also examined, showing the influence King Æthelstan's court had on intellectual and spiritual thought.

Author : Jesse D. Billett
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1907497285

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When did Anglo-Saxon monks begin to recite the daily hours of prayer, the Divine Office, according to the liturgical pattern prescribed in the Rule of St Benedict? Going beyond the simplistic assumptions of previous scholarship, this book reveals that the early Anglo-Saxon Church followed a non-Benedictine Office tradition inherited from the Roman missionaries; the Benedictine Office arrived only when tenth-century monastic reformers such as Dunstan and Æthelwold decided that "true" monks should not use the same Office liturgy as secular clerics, a decision influenced by eighth- and ninth-century Frankish reforms. The author explains, for the first time, how this reduced liturgical diversity in the Western Church to a basic choice between "secular" and "monastic" forms of the Divine Office; he also uses previously unedited manuscript fragments to illustrate the differing attitudes and Continental connections of the English Benedictine reformer, and to show that survivals of the early Anglo-Saxon liturgy may be identifiable in later medieval sources.