Introduction: church leadership and the Anglo-Saxons -- 1. Bede and the early English church -- 2. Archbishop Ecgberht and his dialogus -- 3. Abbatial responsibility as spiritual labour: suckling from the male breast -- 4. Understanding the earliest bishops of Worcester c. 660-860 -- 5. The role of bishops in Anglo-Saxon succession struggles 955 x 978 -- 6. Image-making: portraits of Anglo-Saxon church leaders -- 7. To keep silence following the rule's command: Bishop Thelwold, reforming ideology and communication by signs -- 8. Wulfsige of Sherborne's reforming text -- 9. From Winchester to Canterbury: Ælfheah and Stigand: bishops, archbishops and victims.
Summary:
Essays bring out the important and complex roles played by Anglo-Saxon churchmen, including Bede and lesser-known figures.
Series:
Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies ; v. 12
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