Angels In Early Medieval England
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Angels In Early Medieval England
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Author : Richard Sowerby
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-07-28
Angels In Early Medieval England written by Richard Sowerby and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-28 with Religion categories.
In the modern world, angels can often seem to be no more than a symbol, but in the Middle Ages men and women thought differently. Some offered prayers intended to secure the angelic assistance for the living and the dead; others erected stone monuments carved with images of winged figures; and still others made angels the subject of poetic endeavour and theological scholarship. This wealth of material has never been fully explored, and was once dismissed as the detritus of a superstitious age. Angels in Medieval England offers a different perspective, by using angels as a prism through which to study the changing religious culture of an unfamiliar age. Focusing on one corner of medieval Europe which produced an abundance of material relating to angels, Richard Sowerby investigates the way that ancient beliefs about angels were preserved and adapted in England during the Anglo-Saxon period. Between the sixth century and the eleventh, the convictions of Anglo-Saxon men and women about the world of the spirits underwent a gradual transformation. This book is the first to explore that transformation, and to show the ways in which the Anglo-Saxons tried to reconcile their religious inheritance with their own perspectives about the world, human nature, and God.
Rebel Angels
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Author : Jill Fitzgerald
language : en
Publisher: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Release Date : 2021-05-04
Rebel Angels written by Jill Fitzgerald and has been published by Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-04 with categories.
Over six hundred years before John Milton's Paradise Lost, Anglo-Saxon authors told their own version of the fall of the angels. This book brings together various cultural moments, literary genres and relevant comparanda to recover that version, from the legal and social world to the world of popular spiritual ritual and belief. The story of the fall of the angels in Anglo-Saxon England is the story of a successfully transmitted exegetical teaching turned rich literary tradition. It can be traced through a range of genres - sermons, saints' lives, royal charters, riddles, devotional and biblical poetry - each one offering a distinct window into the ancient myth's place within the Anglo-Saxon literary and cultural imagination.
Angels In The Early Modern World
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Author : Peter Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-08-31
Angels In The Early Modern World written by Peter Marshall and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-31 with History categories.
This volume explores the role of belief in the existence of angels in the early modern world.
Angels And Anchoritic Culture In Late Medieval England
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Author : Joshua S. Easterling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Angels And Anchoritic Culture In Late Medieval England written by Joshua S. Easterling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Angels in literature categories.
Examines the rise of popular religious currents in the later Middle Ages, and studies a range of texts, composed largely between 1100 and 1400, to illustrate how the emergence of charismatic public 'prophets' unsettled the established church and presented a contest over rival images of public spirituality.
Bishop Thelwold His Followers And Saints Cults In Early Medieval England
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Author : Alison Hudson
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2022
Bishop Thelwold His Followers And Saints Cults In Early Medieval England written by Alison Hudson and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Bishops categories.
An exploration of how Æthelwold and those he influenced deployed the promotion of saints to implement religious reform.
Angels And Belief In England 1480 1700
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Author : Laura Sangha
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-06
Angels And Belief In England 1480 1700 written by Laura Sangha and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with History categories.
This study looks at the way the Church utilized the belief in angels to enforce new and evolving doctrine.Angels were used by clergymen of all denominations to support their particular dogma. Sangha examines these various stances and applies the role of angel-belief further, to issues of wider cultural and political significance.
Saint Michael The Archangel In Medieval English Legend
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Author : Richard Freeman Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Boydell Press
Release Date : 2005
Saint Michael The Archangel In Medieval English Legend written by Richard Freeman Johnson and has been published by Boydell Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Literary Criticism categories.
The cult and legends of St Michael the archangel were widespread in medieval England, and this book - the first full-length study of the subject - offers a comprehensive examination of their genesis and diffusion. Part I identifies and analyses the concerns, conflicts, and roles with which St Michael is associated, from scriptural and apocryphal literature through to the homiletic literature of the medieval period. Part II begins with a discussion of the vernacular recensions of the popular account of the archangel's earthly interventions, and goes on to survey the legendary accounts in Old English, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English of the archangel and his roles as guardian, intercessor, psychopomp, and warrior-angel follows. The Appendices contain the first English translation of the archangel's hagiographic foundation-myth; an annotated bibliographical list and motif index of textual materials relating to the archangel; and an essay on the iconographic representations of the archangel in medieval England. RICHARD F. JOHNSON is Assistant Professor of English at William Rainey Harper College.
Angels And Anchoritic Culture In Late Medieval England
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Author : Joshua S. Easterling
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-08-19
Angels And Anchoritic Culture In Late Medieval England written by Joshua S. Easterling and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science but also that combines these subjects productively. It offers innovative studies on topics that may include, but are not limited to, manuscript and book history; languages and literatures of the global Middle Ages; race and the post-colonial; the digital humanities, media and performance; music; medicine; the history of affect and the emotions; the literature and practices of devotion; the theory and history of gender and sexuality, ecocriticism and the environment; theories of aesthetics; medievalism. This volume examines Latin and vernacular writings that formed part of a flourishing culture of mystical experience in the later Middle Ages (ca. 1150–1400), including the ways in which visionaries within their literary milieu negotiated the tensions between personal, charismatic inspiration and their allegiance to church authority. It situates texts written in England within their wider geographical and intellectual context through comparative analyses with contemporary European writings. A recurrent theme across all of these works is the challenge that a largely masculine and clerical culture faced in the form of the various, and potentially unruly, spiritualities that emerged powerfully from the twelfth century onward. Representatives of these major spiritual developments, including the communities that fostered them, were often collaborative in their expression. For example, holy women, including nuns, recluses, and others, were recognized by their supporters within the church for their extraordinary spiritual graces, even as these individual expressions of piety were in many cases at variance with securely orthodox religious formations. These writings become eloquent witnesses to a confrontation between inner, revelatory experience and the needs of the church to set limitations upon charismatic spiritualities that, with few exceptions, carried the seeds of religious dissent. Moreover, while some of the most remarkable texts at the centre of this volume were authored (and/or primarily read) by women, the intellectual and religious concerns in play cut across the familiar and all-too-conventional boundaries of gender and social and institutional affiliation.
Angels On The Edge Of The World
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Author : Kathy Lavezzo
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2006
Angels On The Edge Of The World written by Kathy Lavezzo and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
In a view that sweeps from the tenth century to the mid 16th century, this text shows how the English people's concern with their island's relative isolation on the global map contributed to the emergence of a distinctive English national consciousness in which marginality came to be seen as a virtue.
The Angel Roofs Of East Anglia
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Author : Michael Rimmer
language : en
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Release Date : 2015-08-27
The Angel Roofs Of East Anglia written by Michael Rimmer and has been published by Lutterworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-27 with Architecture categories.
Shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards 2016! It has been estimated that over 90% of England's figurative medieval art was obliterated in the image destruction of the Reformation. Medieval angel roofs, timber structures with spectacular and ornate carvings of angels, with a peculiar preponderance in East Anglia, were simply too difficult for Reformation iconoclasts to reach. Angel roof carvings comprise the largest surviving body of major English medieval wood sculpture. Though they areboth masterpieces of sculpture and engineering, angel roofs have been almost completely neglected by academics and art historians, because they are inaccessible, fixed and challenging to photograph. 'The Angel Roofs of East Anglia' is the first detailed historical and photographic study of the region's many medieval angel roofs. It shows the artistry and architecture of these inaccessible and little-studied medieval artworks in more detail and clarity than ever before, and explains how they were made, by whom, and why. Michael Rimmer redresses the scholarly neglect and brings the beauty, craftsmanship and history of these astonishing medieval creations to the reader. The book also offers a fascinating new answer to the question of why angel roofs are so overwhelmingly an East Anglian phenomenon, but relatively rare elsewhere in the country.