Liturgy, literature, and history : Oswald of Northumbria and the cult of saints in the Middle Ages / edited by Johanna Dale.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dale, Johanna, editor.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 280.

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 280

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oswald, King of Northumbria, 604-642--Cult--Congresses.

Oswald.

Oswald, King of Northumbria, 604-642--Art--Congresses.

Christian saints--Cult--Northumbria (Kingdom)--Congresses.

Christian saints.

Christian saints--Cult--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Church history.

Northumbria (Kingdom)--Kings and rulers--Congresses.

Northumbria (Kingdom).

Northumbria (Kingdom)--Church history--Congresses.

Christian saints--Cult--Northumbria (Kingdom).

Oswald, King of Northumbria, 604-642--Art.

Christian saints--Northumbria (Kingdom)--Art.

Christian saints--Northumbria (Kingdom)--Art--Congresses.

Christian saints--Cult.

Oswald, King of Northumbria, 604-642.

Church history--Middle Ages.

Kings and rulers.

Genre:

proceedings (reports)

Church history

Conference papers and proceedings

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 269 pages : color illustrations, music, facsimiles ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press

Other Title:

Oswald of Northumbria and the cult of saints in the Middle Ages.

Place of Publication:

London : The British Academy, 2025.

Summary:

"The centrality of the cult of saints to medieval Christianity is reflected in surviving liturgical, historical, literary and administrative texts, material culture and architecture. Too often, however, disciplinary boundaries mean these sources are studied in isolation from one another. This volume takes a multi-disciplinary approach to uncover both the mechanisms by which saints' cults spread and also the manner in which veneration of the saints drove other forms of political, cultural and social expression. Focussed on the cult of Oswald of Northumbria in the high Middle Ages, this volume brings together historians, literary scholars, musicologists and art historians to explore the cult of saints through texts, objects, space, sound and the senses and particularly interrogates the influence of liturgy on society. Oswald's cult spread far in time and space from its origins in seventh-century Northumbria, and the essays in this volume seek to understand how liturgical commemoration and celebration of Oswald in different times and places drove developments in cultural expression, initiating new styles in musical as well as visual and material art forms."-- page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Oswald's cult in post-conquest England. The cult of St. Oswald in 12th-century Durham / Lauren L. Whitnah ; Towards a new edition of the Peterborough chronicle of Hugh Candidus / Nicholas Karn ; Public reading and the celebration of the Feast of St. Oswald at Peterborough / Teresa Webber ; King Oswald's arm : liturgy and material culture at Peterborough Abbey / Johanna Dale ; Oswald and post-conquest kingship, 1066-1307 / Nicholas Vincent ; The representation of St Oswald in English medieval art / Julian Luxford

Oswald's continental connections. The Historia of Saint Oswald Rex in Scandinavia / Sean Dunnahoe ; The liturgical offices of St. Oswald at Weingarten, and a new hypothesis for the origins of the 'continental' Historia / Henry Parkes ; A central European life : the Vita Sancti Oswaldi in the late 12th-century Magnum Legendarium Austriacum / Diarmuid Ó Riain ; The raven and his master : animals and animality in the Munich Oswald / Sarah Bowden

Excursus : old and new in the liturgical chants for the Feast of St. Oswald at Peterborough / David Hiley.

Notes:

Conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1836245688

9781836245681

OCLC:

1523907052

Publisher Number:

CIPO000273699