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The Bones of St. Cuthbert: Defining a Saint’s Cult in Medieval Northumbria

Medievalists.net — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:57:24 +0000

This paper investigates the social, political, and religious changes and tensions which surrounded the cult of St. Cuthbert in medieval Northumbria. Specific comparisons are made between the Anglo-Saxon and Norman periods in English history, and how St. Cuthbert's cult responded to the Norman Conquest in 1066.

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Bede’s Temple as History

Medievalists.net — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 12:13:29 +0000

Another IHR paper, this time, a talk given about Bede’s writing and his interest in the image of the Temple and its relation to Christianity. This paper also examined how Bede’s views shifted over time. How did Bede view Judaism? Was he truly ambivalent?

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The Uses Made of History by the Kings of Medieval England

Medievalists.net — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 10:15:35 +0000

The kings of medieval England, besides using history for the entertainment of themselves and their courts, turned it to practical purposes. They plundered history-books for precedents and other evidences to justify their claims and acts. They also recognised its value as propaganda, to bolster up their positions at home and strengthen their hands abroad.

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Northumbria in Stone: Material Evidence and Tenth Century Politics

Medievalists.net — Sun, 25 May 2014 00:46:08 +0000

This paper will illustrate how different forms of evidence provide disparate answers regarding the political situation in tenth-century Northumbria.

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Anglian and Viking York

Medievalists.net — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:17:27 +0000

The Latinised form of the city's name, Eburacum, was never forgotten and remains in learned use until the thirteenth century, but it seems of some significance that the English invaders adapted the late British pronunciation of the word Evoroc adding the simple terminal wic - town.

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The Liber Vitae of Durham (BL MS Cotton Domitian A. vii): a discussion of its possible context and use in the later middle ages

Medievalists.net — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 15:20:48 +0000

The Durham Liber Vitae belonged in the later Middle Ages to Durham Cathedral Priory and, to understand its context, the history of the communities which produced it must be understood.

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The Frankish Annals of Lindisfarne and Kent

Medievalists.net — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 05:26:30 +0000

Scholars interested in the processes by which the history of Early Anglo Saxon England came to be recorded have long known of the existence of the annals that are referred to here as 'The Frankish Annals of Linidisfarne and Kent'.

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Columban Christian influence in Northumbria, before and after Whitby

Medievalists.net — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 06:00:02 +0000

The Synod of Whitby of 664 has traditionally been regarded as the great 'set-piece' debate between the so-called 'Celtic' and Roman churches in Britain, and as the turning-point for Irish - and more specifically Columban - ecclesiastical domination in Northumbria (and beyond).

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Monasteries and the Geography Of Power in the Age of Bede

Medievalists.net — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 02:51:38 +0000

Northumbria is usually thought to have been divided into two geographical regions, Deira and Bernicia.

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Christian Living Explained: Alcuin’s De virtutibus et vitiis liber in a Carolingian Instructional Manual

Medievalists.net — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 18:01:26 +0000

Another paper from the yesterday's SESSION I: Lived Religion in the Middle Ages. This paper focused on Alcuin of York's contribution to the standardisation of Carolingian Christian texts for pastoral instruction.

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