Religion and Society in the Medieval West, 600-1200
[Book]
:Selected Papers
/ Henry Mayr-Harting
Farnham, Surrey, England ;Burlington, VT
: Ashgate
, 2010.
1 v.
: (various pagings) , ill
(Variorum Collected Studies Series
; CS942)
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Two conversions to Christianity: the Bulgarians and the Anglo-Saxons - Bede's patristic thinking as an historian - The Venerable Bede, the rule of St. Benedict, and social class - St. Boniface: mirror of English history - Charlemagne, the Saxons, and the imperial coronation of 800 - Charlemagne's religion - Perceptions of angels in history - Liudprand of Cremona's account of his legation to Constantinople (968) and Ottonian imperial strategy - The church of Magdeburg: its trade and its town in the tenth and early eleventh centuries - Was the identity of the Prague church in the tenth century imposed from without or developed from within? - Apocalyptic book illustration in the early Middle Ages - Hilary, Bishop of Chichester (1147-1169) and Henry II - Henry II and the papacy, 1170-1189 - Functions of a twelfth-century recluse (Wulfric of Haselbury) - Functions of a twelfth-century shrine: the miracles of St. Frideswide - Odo of Deuil, the second Crusade, and the monastery of Saint-Denis