Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 October 2002
- ISBN 9780198203940
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages596 pages
- Size 241x163x36 mm
- Weight 987 g
- Language English
- Illustrations halftones and line illustrations 0
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Short description:
Veneration of the saints is one of the defining characteristics of early medieval society and culture. This important book by a group of distinguished experts adopts for the first time an interdisciplinary approach to examine the innumerable local cults which developed in western Europe between about 400 and 1000, concentrating especially on Celtic and Anglo-Saxon saints. The volume combines wide-ranging surveys with crucial reference material, including a handlist of all known Anglo-Saxon saints.
MoreLong description:
This book explores the development of the cult of the saints in western Europe between c.400 and 1000. The main emphasis is upon Anglo-Saxon England, post-Roman Britain, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, but there are important contributions on Francia and on western Europe as a whole. No other volume combines such a broad geographical spread with such a wide range of disciplines and approaches - textual, archaeological, genealogical, onomastic, as well as historical. Veneration of innumerable local saints and martyrs is one of the defining characteristics of early medieval society. This book looks at how such saints came to be recognized and how they were enshrined, the circumstances in which they proliferated, and the factors leading to the development of their often extremely localized cults. Throughout, the aim is to emphasize the pan-European context, to place insular developments in a wider continuum extending from Ireland through to Rome and Byzantium. The volume combines wide-ranging surveys, providing fundamental orientation on a variety of core subjects, with crucial reference material (including a handlist of all known Anglo-Saxon saints). It will be indispensable to all interested in early Britain and Ireland, Anglo-Saxon England and to the culture of early medieval Europe as a whole.
The editors must be congratulated for bringing together these studies on the early medieval cults of Britain and Ireland and for placing such cults in a wider context, thanks to the inclusion of some essays dealing partly or entirely with Continental matters.
Table of Contents:
Loca Sanctorum: The Significance of Place in the Study of the Saints
The Making of a Local Saint
Martyrs and Local Saints in Late Antique Britain
Constructing Cults in Early Medieval France: Local Saints and Churches in Burgundy and the Auvergne 400-1000
The Enshrinement of Local Saints in Merovingian and Carolingian Francia
Celtic Saints and Early Medieval Archaeology
Érlam: The Patron Saint of an Irish Minster
Irish Saints' Cults and Ecclesiastical Families
Local Saints and Place-Names in Cornwall
The Saints of South Wales and the Welsh Church
Scottish Saints and National Identities in the Early Middle Ages
Universal and Local Saints in Anglo-Saxon England
A Saint for Every Minster? Local Cults in Anglo-Saxon England
A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Saints
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