England and the Continent in the Tenth Century: Studies in Honour of Wilhelm Levison (1876-1947)

604 Pages·2010·20.699 MB·English

by  David Rollason, Conrad Leyser, Hannah Williams

ENGLAND AND THE CONTINENT
IN THE TENTH CENTURY
STUDIES IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
Editorial Board under the auspices of the
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Elizabeth M. Tyler, University of York
Julian D. Richards, University of York
Ross Balzaretti, University of Nottingham
Previously published volumes in this series are listed at the back of this book
VOLUME 37
ENGLAND AND THE CONTINENT
IN THE TENTH CENTURY
Studies in Honour of Wilhelm Levison (1876–1947)
edited by
David Rollason, Conrad Leyser, and Hannah Williams
H
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
England and the continent in the tenth century : studies in honour of Wilhelm Levison
(1876-1947). – (Studies in the early Middle Ages ; v. 37)
1. Great Britain – History – Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 – Congresses. 2. Europe – History
– 476-1492 – Congresses. 3. Great Britain – Foreign relations – Europe – Congresses.
4. Europe – Foreign relations – Great Britain – Congresses. 5. Civilization, Anglo-Saxon –
Congresses. 6. England – Church history – 449-1066 – Congresses. 7. Europe – Church
history – 600-1500 – Congresses. 8. Great Britain – Politics and government – 449-1066 –
Congresses. 9. Europe – Politics and government – 476-1492 – Congresses. 10. Tenth century
– Congresses.
I. Series II. Levison, Wilhelm, 1876-1947. III. Rollason, D. W. (David W.) IV. Leyser, Conrad.
V. Williams, Hannah.
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgements xvii
List of Abbreviations xix
Introduction: England and the Continent 1
CONRAD LEYSER
Part I: Routeways, Contacts, and Attitudes
Routeways between England and the Continent in the Tenth Century 17
STÉPHANE LEBECQ AND ALBAN GAUTIER
Continental Germanic Personal Names in Tenth-Century England 35
JOHN INSLEY
Exiles, Abbots, Wives, and Messengers: 51
Anglo-Saxons in the Tenth-Century Reich
ANDREAS BIHRER
Flemish Monasticism, Comital Power, and the Archbishops 67
of Canterbury: A Written Legacy from the Late Tenth Century
STEVEN VANDERPUTTEN
An Itinerant English Master around the Millennium 87
RICHARD GAMESON
A Carolingian Scholar in the Court of King Æthelstan 135
MICHAEL WOOD
England and the Papacy in the Tenth Century 163
FRANCESCA TINTI
Relations between Fleury and England 185
MARCO MOSTERT
Part II: Kingship, Royal Models, and Dynastic Strategies
‘The King from Overseas’: 211
Why Did Æthelstan Matter in Tenth-Century Continental Affairs?
VERONICA ORTENBERG
Dynastic Strategies: The West Saxon Royal Family in Europe 237
SARAH FOOT
Monastic Reform and Royal Ideology in the Late Tenth Century: 255
Ælfthryth and Edgar in Continental Perspective
SIMON MACLEAN
Comparative Approaches to Anglo-Saxon and Ottonian Coronations 275
DAVID A. WARNER
Tenth-Century Kingship Comparatively 293
JANET L. NELSON
Part III: Law and the Working of Government
Kingship and Palaces in the Ottonian Realm 311
and in the Kingdom of England
THOMAS ZOTZ
Written Law and the Communication of Authority 331
in Tenth-Century England
DAVID PRATT
Legal Culture in Tenth-Century Lotharingia 351
CHARLES WEST
Part IV: The Church: Organization and Culture
Where are the Parishes? Where are the Minsters? 379
The Organization of the Spanish Church in the Tenth Century
WENDY DAVIES
Pastoral Care before the Parish: Aspects of 399
the Early Ecclesiastical Organization of Scandinavia, especially Sweden
STEFAN BRINK
The Early Pontificals: The Anglo-Saxon Evidence Reconsidered 411
from a Continental Perspective
SARAH HAMILTON
The Divine Office and the Secular Clergy in Later Anglo-Saxon England 429
JESSE D. BILLETT
The Policy on Relic Translations of Baldwin II of Flanders (879–918), 473
Edward of Wessex (899–924) and Æthelflaed of Mercia (d. 924):
A Key to Anglo-Flemish Relations?
BRIGITTE MEIJNS
Part V: The Vision of the Past
The Interests of Historians in the Tenth Century 495
THOMAS F. X. NOBLE
Insular History? Forgery and the English Past in the Tenth Century 515
JULIA CRICK
The Image of Roman History in Anglo-Saxon England 545
YANN COZ
Index 559

ILLUSTRATIONS
Figures
Gameson, ‘An Itinerant English Master around the Millenium’
Figure 1, p. 89. Gospel-book, canon-table. Boulogne, Bibliothèque municipale, MS
11, fol. 4r.
Figure 2, p. 90. Cosmic Christ. Boulogne, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 11,
fol. 10r.
Figure 3, p. 91. St Matthew; Ancestors of Christ. Boulogne, Bibliothèque muni-
cipale, MS 11, fol. 10v.
Figure 4, p. 92. Ancestors of Christ; Annunciation; Visitation. Boulogne, Biblio-
thèque municipale, MS 11, fol. 11v.
Figure 5, p. 93. Annunciation to the Shepherds; Nativity; incipit to St Matthew’s
Gospel. Boulogne, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 11, fol. 12r.
Figure 6, p. 94. Prologue to St John’s Gospel. Boulogne, Bibliothèque municipale,
MS 11, fol. 104v.
Figure 7, p. 95. Incipit to St John’s Gospel. Boulogne, Bibliothèque municipale,
MS 11, fol. 107v.
Figure 8, p. 101. Cicero’s Aratea; Perseus. London, British Library, MS Harley
2506, fol. 37r.
Figure 9, p. 106. ‘Ramsey’ Psalter: Crucifixion, London, British Library, MS
Harley 2904, fol. 3v.
x Illustrations
Figure 10, p. 107. Beatus vir (Psalm 1). London, British Library, MS Harley 2904,
fol. 4r.
Figure 11, p. 111. ‘Anhalt’ Gospels: St Matthew. New York, Pierpont Morgan
Library, MS M 827, fol. 17v.
Figure 12, p. 112. Framed display text. New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS
M 827, fol. 19r.
Figure 13, p. 113. St Luke. New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M 827,
fol. 66v.
Figure 14, p. 116. Gregory the Great, Homilies on Ezekiel (Book II); initial to the
preface to Book II. Orléans, Médiathèque, MS 175, p. 1.
Figure 15, p. 117. End of text plus colophon. Orléans, Médiathèque, MS 175,
p. 148.
Figure 16, p. 118. Drawing of Christ, St Gregory, St Benedict, and a monk.
Orléans, Médiathèque, MS 175, p. 149.
Figure 17, p. 119. Display text. Orléans, Médiathèque, MS 175, p. 150.
Figure 18, p. 123. Crucifix with Anglo-Saxon ivory corpus. London, Victoria and
Albert Museum, M7943–1862.
Wood, ‘A Carolingian Scholar in the Court of King Æthelstan’
Figure 19, p. 141. A tenth-century scholar/grammarian/philosopher’s common-
place book. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 12949, fol. 52v.
Figure 20, p. 144. ‘Game of the Evangelists’ (Alea Evangelii). Oxford, Corpus
Christi College, MS 122, fol. 5v.
Figure 21, p. 146. A tenth-century grammarian’s teaching dossier. Worcester
Cathedral Library, MS Q.5, fol. 71v (from St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury).
Figure 22, p. 153. A tenth-century king’s private psalter. London, British Library,
MS Cotton Galba A XVIII (Æthelstan Psalter), fol. 200r.
Figure 23, p. 155. Christ with the instruments of the Passion, and choruses of
angels and prophets. London, British Library, MS Cotton Galba A XVIII
(Æthelstan Psalter), fol. 2v.