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Alison Hudson
Bishop Aethelwold, His Followers, and Saints Cults in Early Medieval England: Power, Belief, and Religious Reform
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ISBN: 9781783276851
Author : Alison Hudson
Published: 2022
Publisher: Boydell Press
Number of pages: 256
Language: English
Format: Hardback
Format: 234×156
Author : Alison Hudson
Published: 2022
Publisher: Boydell Press
Number of pages: 256
Language: English
Format: Hardback
Format: 234×156
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Bishop Æthelwold of Winchester and his associates were some of the most radical monastic reformers in tenth-century Europe. Over two generations, they took over most of the powerful churches in the kingdom of England and implemented a number of the policies found in their ambitious monastic manifestos. They also had a major impact on the early development of the kingdom itself, implicated in the establishment of a shire system that lasted a thousand years, negotiations with invaders, and attempts to create a standardized English language.
Æthelwold and his circle were also enthusiastic venerators of saints. This book examines a range of sources, from hagiographies to charters, from liturgy to archaeological remains, to argue that saints' cults helped these men and women secure their power, wealth, and relationships with groups outside their monasteries. The saints that Æthelwold's circle promoted most lavishly were not necessarily the ones that they studied or the ones that matched their ideological agenda. Rather, Æthelwold's monks and nuns connected themselves to a wide range of saints, including the Virgin Mary, St Swithun, Æthelthryth of Ely, Iudoc, Grimbald, Botulf, Cuthbert, and many others. Venerating these saints helped Æthelwold and his followers appeal to other groups in society, including unreformed ecclesiastics, lay nobles, and the workers on their estates. This book therefore not only has implications for the study of early English history and literature, but also for the history of western European monasticism and saints' cults more generally.
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