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Author(s): John Blair, Fellow and Praelector in Modern History John Blair
ISBN(s): 9780198226956, 0198226950
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Year: 2005
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0198226950 
ISBN 13: 9780198226956
Author: John Blair

From the impact of the first monasteries in the seventh century, to the emergence of the local parochial system five hundred years later, the Church was a force for change in Anglo-Saxon society. It shaped culture and ideas, social and economic behaviour, and the organization of landscape and settlement. This book traces how the widespread foundation of monastic sites (‘minsters’) during c.670-730 gave the recently pagan English new ways of living, of exploiting their resources, and of absorbing European culture, as well as opening new spiritual and intellectual horizons. Through the era of Viking wars, and the tenth-century reconstruction of political and economic life, the minsters gradually lost their wealth, their independence, and their role as sites of high culture, but grew in stature as foci of local society and eventually towns. After 950, with the increasing prominence of manors, manor-houses, and village communities, a new and much larger category of small churches were founded, endowed, and rebuilt: the parish churches of the emergent eleventh- and twelfth-century local parochial system. In this innovative study, John Blair brings together written, topographical, and archaeological evidence to build a multi-dimensional picture of what local churches and local communities meant to each other in early England.

The Church in Anglo Saxon Society 1st Table of contents:

1. The English and their Christian Neighbours, c.550–650
Influences (i): the Roman inheritance in Britain
Influences (ii): the Roman inheritance in Italy and Gaul
Influences (iii): the Frankish world
Influences (iv): the Irish
The Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: political and social contexts
The monumentalization of cult
Lay burial: church versus ancestors?
The first Christian sites and systems
The triumph of the monastic model
2. Minsters in Church and State, c.650–850
Minsters and monasticism
The royal and sub-royal context of monastic foundations
The episcopal context of monastic foundations
Useless to God and man? The problem of aristocratic minsters
Reaction and reform: Bede, Boniface, and the struggle for episcopal governance
The problem of local churches
Minsters on the defensive: external control and disendowment
3. Church and People, c.650–850
The ‘minster culture’ of Bede’s England
The cults of saints
The landscape of minsters: distribution and influences
The territorial framework: secular and religious structures
The provision and organization of pastoral care
The lay practice of Christianity
4. The Church in the Landscape, c.650–850
Recycling the past
The locations of minsters
The enclosures and buildings of minsters
Problems of identity: Northampton, Brandon, Flixborough, and the metal-detected sites
Monastic centres and peripheries: cells, ‘granges’, hermitages, and retreats
Widening circles for the living: sacred space and the Christianization of the landscape
Widening circles for the dead: the drift towards minster-associated burial
5. Monastic Towns? Minsters as Central Places, c.650–850
The ‘holy city’ (i): symbolic urbanism
The ‘holy city’ (ii): economic centrality
Minsters and urbanization: problems of definition and hierarchy
Hierarchical centres (i): princely citadels
Hierarchical centres (ii): Roman towns and forts
Hierarchical centres (iii): open-ground royal vills
Secular residence, itineration, and encroachment on minsters
Fortress-work, citadels, and minsters
6. Minsters in a Changing World, c.850–1100
The Scandinavian impact
Continuity, disruption, and development: regional variation in the experience of minsters
The secularization of minsters (i): annexation by kings, lords, and religious corporations
The secularization of minsters (ii): urbanization
Communities, patronage, and reform (i): from Alfred to Eadgar
Communities, patronage, and reform (ii): from Æthelred II to William II
7. The Birth and Growth of Local Churches, c.850–1100
Relativities of scale in a changing parochial culture
Origins (i): the privatization of ‘undeveloped’ sacred sites
Origins (ii): devolution from clerical communities
Origins (iii): foundation by estate proprietors
Origins (iv): divided townships, joint founders, and shared churchyards
Origins (v): small urban churches
Endowment and the ‘Great Rebuilding’
Regional variation
How different was England?
8. From Hyrness to Parish: The Formation of Parochial Identities, c.850–1100
The language of parochial allegiance
The background and context of mother-church dues
The enforcement and erosion of mother-church dues
The mother-church as spiritual and social focus
The local church as spiritual and social focus
Changing burial practice in post-Viking England
The landscape of ritual and cult: continuity and innovation
Bishops, lords, and priests
Township, manor, and parish

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