Liturgy, Literature and History

Oswald of Northumbria and the Cult of Saints in the Middle Ages

Buch | Hardcover

284 Seiten

2025
The British Academy (Verlag)
978-1-83624-568-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Johanna Dale is a research fellow in the Department of History at UCL, where she previously held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. She is Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded project ‘Liturgical and Literary Landscapes: the cult of St Oswald of Northumbria in the German-speaking world’. Her first book, Inauguration and Liturgical Kingship in the Long Twelfth Century: Male and Female Accession Rituals in England, France and the Empire (Woodbridge, 2019) was shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society’s Whitfield Prize. She has also published numerous articles and edited several collections of essays, including St Peter-on-the-Wall: Landscape and Heritage on the Essex Coast (London, 2023).

List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Abbreviations Acknowledgements

Introduction: Liturgy, Literature and History Johanna Dale

Part I: Oswald’s cult in Post-Conquest England 1. The Cult of Oswald in Twelfth-Century Durham Lauren L. Whitnah

Towards a New Edition of Hugh Candidus’s Peterborough Chronicle Nicholas Karn

Public Reading and the Celebration of the Feast of St Oswald at Peterborough in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries 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 Imagery of King Oswald in Medieval England Julian Luxford

Part II Oswald’s Continental Connections 7. The Transmission of Oswald’s Liturgy into Scandinavia Sean Dunnahoe

The Liturgical Offices of St Oswald at Weingarten and a New Hypothesis for the Origins of the ‘Continental’ Historia Henry Parkes

The Lives of Oswald and other English Saints in the Twelfth-Century Magnum Legendarium Austriacum Diarmuid Ó Riain

St Oswald’s Raven: Sanctity, Sovereignty and Animality in the Munich Oswald Sarah Bowden

Excursus: Old and New in the Liturgical Chants for the Feast of St Oswald at Peterborough: Musical Transcriptions David Hiley

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Erscheinungsdatum	22.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	Proceedings of the British Academy ; 280
Zusatzinfo	13 Illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-83624-568-8 / 1836245688
ISBN-13	978-1-83624-568-1 / 9781836245681
Zustand	Neuware