Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages

Studies Presented to Henry Mayr-Harting

Edited by Richard Gameson and Henrietta Leyser

This collection of essays focuses on fundamental issues of Christian belief and culture in the Middle Ages. Ranging geographically from the ...

Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages

Studies Presented to Henry Mayr-Harting

Edited by Richard Gameson and Henrietta Leyser

Description

Are there angels within spitting distance of men? What did Pope Gregory the Great think of pagans? Were the monks of Battle compulsive forgers? Is temptation always a bad thing? These and many other fascinating questions are explored in this book.

Commisssioned in honour of the distinguished medieval historian, Henry Mayr-Harting and reflecting the range and focus of its honorand's interests, the twenty-five essays provide a panoramic and stimulating exploration of the interrelated fields of belief and culture in the middle ages. Sanctity and sacred biography, seduction and temptation, forgery and litigation, patronage and art production, conversion and oppression were all part of the rich fabric of medieval Christian culture that is scrutinized here. Individually the studies shed new light on a series of key issues and questions relating to the cultural, religious, and political history of the sixth-century church, of Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, and of Carolingian, Ottonian, and Investiture Contest Europe; while collectively they illuminate the interaction of Christianity and politics, of secular and sacred, and of belief and culture from late antiquity to the thirteenth century.

Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages

Studies Presented to Henry Mayr-Harting

Edited by Richard Gameson and Henrietta Leyser

Henry Mayr-Harting at Liverpool, Christopher Brooke
Teaching with Henry Mayr-Harting, Lawrence Goldman
Principal Publications of Henry Mayr-Harting to 2000
1:Angels, Monks, and Demons in the Early Medieval West, Conrad Leyser
2:Gregory the Great's Pagans, R. A. Markus
3:The Annotations in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. D. II. 14, David Ganz
4:Why Did Eadfrith Write the Lindisfarne Gospels?, Richard Gameson
5:Virgin Queens: Abbesses and Power in Early Anglo-Saxon England, Veronica Ortenberg
6:Duke Tassilo of Bavaria and the Origins of the Rupertus Cross, Anton Scharer
7:The Voice of Charlemagne, Janet L. Nelson
8:True Teachers and Pious Kings: Salzburg, Louis of Bavaria, and Christian Order, Stuart Airlie
9:No Bishop, No King: The Ministerial Ideology of Kingship and Asser's Res Gestae Aelfredi, Matthew Kempshall
10:The Strange Affair of the Selsey Bishopric, 953-963, Patrick Wormald
11:The Church of Worcester and St Oswald, Eric John
12:Unity, Order, and Ottonian Kingship in the Thought of Abbo of Fleury, Alison Peden
13:An Ottonian Sacramentary in Oxford, Martin Kauffmann
14:Events that Led to Sainthood: Sanctity and Reformers in the Eleventh Century, Kathleen G. Cushing
15:Pastorale pedum ante pedes apostolici posuit: Disinvestiture and Reinvestiture in the Era of the Investiture Contest, Timothy Reuter
16:The Religious Patronage of Robert and William of Mortain, Brian Golding
17:Ranulf Flambard and Christina of Markyate, R. I. Moore
18:Functions of a Twelfth-Century Recluse Revisited: The Case of Godric of Finchale, Susan J. Ridyard
19:Robert of Lewes, Bishop of Bath 1136-1166: A Cluniac Bishop in his Diocese, Frances Ramsey
20:King Henry II and the Monks of Battle: The Battle Chronicle Unmasked, Nicholas Vincent
21:The Letter-Writing of Archbishop Becket, D. J. A. Matthew
22:Thomas Becket: Martyr, Saint - and Friend?, Julian Haseldine
23:Two Concepts of Temptations, Henrietta Leyser
24:Peter of Poitiers's Compendium in Genealogia Christi: The Early English Copies, Stella Panayotova
25:The Saint and the Operation of the Law: Reflections upon the Miracles of St Thomas Cantilupe, Valerie I. J. Flint
Index of Manuscripts
General Index

Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages

Studies Presented to Henry Mayr-Harting

Edited by Richard Gameson and Henrietta Leyser

Author Information

Edited by Richard Gameson, Reader in Medieval History, University of Kent, Canterbury, and Henrietta Leyser, Fellow and Lecturer in Medieval History, St Peter's College, Oxford

Contributors:

Christopher Brooke
Lawrence Goldman
Conrad Leyser
R. A. Markus
David Ganz
Richard Gameson
Veronica Ortenberg
Anton Scharer
Janet L. Nelson
Stuart Airlie
Matthew Kempshall
Patrick Wormald
Eric John
Alison Peden
Martin Kauffmann
Kathleen G. Cushing
Timothy Reuter
Brian Golding
R. I. Moore
Susan J. Ridyard
Frances Ramsey
Nicholas Vincent
D. J. A. Matthew
Julian Haseldine
Henrietta Leyser
Stella Panayotova
Valerie I. J. Flint

Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages

Studies Presented to Henry Mayr-Harting

Edited by Richard Gameson and Henrietta Leyser

Reviews and Awards

"The strength of the volume is its repeated making new of old questions and matter, the scratching away of layers to reveal the vividness of an original text." - Revue d'Histoire Ecclesiastique

"Truly a fitting tribute to a gifted teacher and noted scholar." - History

"This collection is a coherent one which makes a quite particular contribution to medieval studies ... Henry Mayr-Harting's influence is present in every part of this collection ... This volume is a fitting tribute to a very distinguished scholar." - English Historical Review