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By Alexander R. Rumble

Either episcopal and abbatial authority have been of primary significance to the advance of the Christian church in Anglo-Saxon England. Bishops and heads of monastic homes have been invested with quite a few forms of energy and impression. Their activities, judgements, and writings may well switch not just their very own associations, but additionally the nationwide church, whereas their interplay with the king and his court docket affected wider modern society.Theories of ecclesiastical management have been expounded in modern texts and records. yet how a long way did snapshot or excellent mirror truth? How a lot room was once there for people to take advantage of their place of work to advertise new rules? The papers during this quantity illustrate the real roles performed by means of person major ecclesiastics in England, either in the church and within the wider political sphere, from the overdue 7th to the mid 11th century. The indisputable authority of Bede and Bishop Æthelwold is verified but in addition the impression of less-familiar figures akin to Bishop Wulfsige of Sherborne, Archbishop Ecgberht of York and St Leoba. The booklet attracts on either textual and fabric proof to teach the impact (by either deed and popularity) of robust personalities not just at the constructing associations of the English church but additionally at the secular politics in their time. members: Alexander R. Rumble, Nicholas J. Higham, Martyn J. Ryan, Cassandra Rhodes, Allan Scott McKinley, Dominik Wassenhoven, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Debby Banham, Joyce Hill.

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13–42, at pp. 37–41. Sometimes called ‘dean’ before 1066, see Margaret Deanesly, Sidelights on the Anglo-Saxon Church (London, 1962), pp. 162–8. RB 1980, ed. Fry, pp. 280–1. 22 ALEXANDER R. RUMBLE ex alio noto monachorum monasterio, concordi regis et fratrum quibus dedicari debet consilio eligatur. 108 Three of these sees were held by the leaders of the monastic faction in the reign of Edgar, all of whom had previously been abbots elsewhere (Dunstan 106 107 108 Regularis Concordia, proem. 9: text from Councils & Synods, ed.

Let us take, for example, the passage in HE, IV. 41 Given the detail and the claims offered, it seems very likely that this was based on a textual or oral communication derived ultimately from Abbot Albinus at Canterbury, so the phrase ‘omnis Anglorum ecclesia’ ‘the whole church of the English’, which occurs only a few lines further on, may well also have been his. Theodore had found himself in the 670s as an outsider having to build virtually from scratch a pan-English archdiocese, and it seems very likely that the rhetoric supportive of that process continued to the present at Canterbury, so was capable of influencing passages in Bede’s work which relied heavily on input from Albinus and Nothhelm.

However, when in 983 he acquired meadow-land outside Winchester, later owned by the New Minster and to become the site of Hyde Abbey, he was styled solely as bishop of Selsey: see S 845; Rumble, Property and Piety, no. IX (pp. 149–55), and p.  149. Barlow, English Church, pp. 102–4. On their uniqueness, see Patrick Wormald, ‘Æthelwold and his Continental Counterparts: Contact, Comparison, Contrast’, in Bishop Æthelwold, ed. Yorke, pp. 13–42, at pp. 37–41. Sometimes called ‘dean’ before 1066, see Margaret Deanesly, Sidelights on the Anglo-Saxon Church (London, 1962), pp.

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