FACULTY OF THEOLOGY AND RELIGION Final Honour School Book List for Paper 36 English Church and Mission, 597-754 (Additional reading to Set Texts) 1. General Benedicta Ward The Venerable Bede (1998) Henry Mayr-Harting The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England (3rd ed. 1991) The Anglo-Saxons, ed. James Campbell (1982, available in pbk), esp. c. 3 (Campbell) and 4 (Wormald). James Campbell Essays in Anglo-Saxon History (1986) Richard Fletcher, The Conversion of Europe. From Paganism to Christianity, 371-1386 AD (London, 1997) Barbara Yorke, The Conversion of Britain, 600-800 (2006) John Blair, The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society (2005) Sarah Foot Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England (2006; paperback 2009) Scott DeGregorio, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Bede (2010) Malcolm Lambert Christians and Pagans: the Conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede (2010) Sarah Foot Bede s Church, Jarrow Lecture 2012 (2013) 2. Bede's Ecclesiastical History (a) Source Criticism J. Campbell 'Bede', in Latin Historians, ed. T. E. Dorey (reprinted in Campbell s Essays in Anglo-Saxon History) J. M. Wallace-Hadrill Bede's Ecclesiastical History: A Commentary (1988) D. P. Kirby Bede's Native Sources', Bulletin of John Rylands Library 48 (1966), 341-71. R. A. Markus, Bede and the Tradition of Ecclesiastical History, Jarrow Lecture 1975 (1976) W. Goffart, The Narrators of Barbarian History (AD 550-800): Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede and Paul the Deacon (1988), pp. 235-328 N. Brooks, From British to English Christianity: Deconstructing Bede s interpretation of the conversion, in Conversion and Colonization in Anglo-Saxon England ed. C E Karkov and N Howe (2006), 3-30 (b) Bede and Kings Patrick Wormald Ideal and Reality in Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Society (1983), esp.papers by McClure (on Bede's OT Kings), Wormald (on Bede and the Bretwaldas), and Thacker (Bede's Idea of Reform). Henry Mayr-Harting 'Bede's Patristic Thinking as an Historian', in Historiographie imfrüheren Mittelalter, ed. A. Scharer (1994), pp. 367-374. 1
(c) Conversion Henry Mayr-Harting Two Conversions to Christianity: the Anglo-Saxons and the Bulgarians (Stenton Lecture, 1994). D. P. Kirby 'Bede and the Pictish Church', Innes Review 29 (1973) Patrick Wormald 'The Venerable Bede and the Church of the English', in Geoffrey Rowell, ed. The English Tradition and the Genius of Anglicanism (1993). Patrick Wormald 'Bede and Beowulf', in British Archeological Reports 46 (1978), Ian Wood ed. R. T. Farrell, pp. 32-95. 'The Mission of Augustine of Canterbury to the English', Speculum 69 (1994), 1-17. Richard Gameson, ed., St. Augustine of Canterbury (1999) A.T. Thacker Alexander Murray, Nicholas Brooks, Alan Thacker, Rowan Williams, (d) Pope Gregory Robert Markus, Bede and the Irish, in L. A. J. R. Houwen and A. A. MacDonald (eds.), Bede Venerabilis: Historian, Monk and Northumbrian, (Groningen, 1996), pp.31-60 Bede and the Unchosen Race, in H. Price and J. Watts (eds.) Power and Identity in the Middle Ages (2007), pp.52-67 From British to English Christianity: deconstructing Bede s interpretation of the conversion, in Conversion and Colonization in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. C. Karkov and N. Howe (2006), pp. 1-30 Bede, the Britons and the Book of Samuel, in Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald, ed. Stephen Baxter (2009), pp. 129-48 Theology and the paschal controversy: Bede s case against the British Church, in Prayer and Thought in Monastic Tradition: Essays in Honour of Sr Benedicta Ward, ed. Santha Bhattacharji, Rowan Williams and Dominic Mattos (Bloomsbury, 2014), pp. 31-44 Gregory the Great and a Papal Missionary Strategy, The Mission of the Church and the Propagation of the Faith, ed.g.j. Cuming (1970), pp. 29 38 B. Colgrave, ed The Earliest Life of Gregory the Great, by an Anonymous Monk of Whitby (1968; paperback reprint, 1985). R. Davis, The Book of Pontiffs (1989), covering popes from St Peter to Constantine (708 15) J.R.C. Martyn, The Letters of Pope Gregory the Great, 3 vols. (2004) R.A. Markus, Gregory the Great and his World (1997) R. Meens, A Background to Augustine s Mission to Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxon England 23 (1994), 5 17 I. Wood, The mission of Augustine of Canterbury to the English, Speculum, 69 (1994), 1-17 (e) Bede and the English P.Wormald, Bede, Bretwaldas and the Origins of the Gens Anglorum, in P. Wormald (ed.), Ideal and Reality in Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Society (1983); reprinted in The Times of Bede. Studies in Early English Christian Society and its Historian, ed. Stephen Baxter (2006) P. Wormald, The Venerable Bede and the Church of the English, in G. Rowell, The English Religious Tradition and the Genius of Anglicanism (1992), pp.13-32; reprinted in The Times of Bede. Studies in Early English Christian Society and its Historian, ed. Stephen Baxter (2006) 2
H.E.J. Cowdrey, Bede and the English People, Journal of Religious History 11 (1980-1981), pp.501-535 Michael Richter, Bede's 'Angli': Angles or English?, Peritia 3 (1984), pp.99-113 Sarah Foot, The making of Angelcynn: English identity before the Norman Conquest, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6 th series 6 (1996), 25-49 Nicholas Brooks, Bede and the English, Jarrow Lecture 1999 (2000) Nicholas Brooks, English Identity from Bede to the Millennium, Haskins Soicety Journal 14 (2003), pp.33-52 Nicholas Brooks, From British to English Christianity: deconstructing Bede s interpretation of the conversion, in Conversion and Colonization in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. C. Karkov and N. Howe (2006), pp. 1-30 Alan Thacker, Bede, the Britons and the Book of Samuel, in Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald, ed. Stephen Baxter (2009), pp. 129-48 (f) Archbishop Theodore Bernhard Bischoff and Biblical Commentaries from the Canterbury School of Michael Lapidge Theodore and Hadrian (1994). M. Lapidge, The School of Theodore and Hadrian, Anglo-Saxon England 15 (1986), 45 72, reptd in his Anglo-Latin Literature 1996) M. Lapidge (ed.), Archbishop Theodore: Commemorative Essays (1995); esp M. Lapidge, The Career of Archbishop Theodore, pp. 1 29 Alan Thacker, Gallic or Greek? Archbishops in England from Theodore to Ecgberht, in Frankland : the Franks and the world of the early middle ages : essays in honour of Dame Jinty Nelson, ed. Paul Fouracre and David Ganz (2008), pp. 44-69 3. Wilfrid D. P. Kirby, ed. St Wilfrid at Hexham (1974), esp. his own introductory essay. Henry Mayr-Harting St Wilfrid in Sussex', in Studies in Sussex Church History, ed.m. J. Kitch (1981). Walter Goffart The Narrators of Barbarian History, chapter 4 (1988) D. P. Kirby Bede, Eddius Stephanus, and the Life of Wilfrid English Historical Review (1983), pp. 101-104. William T. Foley Images of Sanctity in Eddius Stephanus's Life of Bishop Wilfrid (1992). R.N. Bailey, St Wilfrid, Ripon and Hexham, American Early Medieval M Laynesmith, Studies 1 (1990), 3 25 Stephen of Ripon and the Bible: allegorical and typological interpretations of the Life of St Wilfrid, Early Medieval Europe 9.2 (2000), 163-82 E. John, Social and Political Problems of the Early English Church, Land, Church and People, ed. J. Thirsk (1970), pp. 39 63, reptd in Anglo-Saxon History: Basic Readings, ed. D.A.E. Pelteret, Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England 6 (2000), pp. 21 53 N.J. Higham, ed., Wilfrid: Abbot, Bishop, Saint. Papers from the 1300 th Anniversary Conferences (2013), esp. Thacker on Wilfrid, his cult and his biographer ; Grocock, Wilfrid, Benedict Biscop and Bede the monk who knew too much? ; Fouracre, Wilfrid on the Continent. C. Stancliffe Disputed episcopacy: Bede, Acca, and the relationship between Stephen s Life of St Wilfrid and the early prose Lives of St Cuthbert, Anglo-Saxon England 41 (2013), pp. 7-39 3
4. Dream of the Rood Rosemary Woolf Eamon O'Carragain Doctrinal Influences on the Dream of the Rood, Medium Aevum 27 (1958). Liturgical Innovations and the Iconography of the Ruthwell and Bewcastle Crosses, in British Archaeological Reports 46, ed. R. T. Farrell (1978), pp. 131-147 É. Ó Carragáin Ritual and the Rood: Liturgical Images and the Old English Poems of the Dream of the Rood Tradition (2005) Brendan Cassidy, ed., The Ruthwell Cross (1992) Calvin B Kendall L.N. Braswell From sign to vision: the Ruthwell Cross and The Dream of the Rood, in The Place of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England. Ed. Catherine E. Karkov, Sarah Larratt Keefer, Karen Louise Jolly (2006), pp. 129-157 The Dream of the Rood and Aldhelm on Sacred Prosopopoeia, Mediaeval Studies, 40 (1978) 5. Columba of Iona Ludwig Bieler Ireland Harbinger of the Middle Ages (1963) Kathleen Hughes The Church in Early Irish Society (1966), esp. Part II. Thomas Charles-Edwards The Social Background to Irish Peregrinatio, Celtica 11 (1976), pp. 43-59. D A Bullough, Columba, Adomnan and the achievement of Iona, Scottish Historical Review 43 (1963-4), 111-30 and 44 (1964-5), 17-33 A Duncan, Bede, Iona and the Picts, in RHC Davis and JM Wallace- Hadrill, The Writing of History in the Middle Ages (1981) ADS MacDonald, Aspects of the monastery and monastic life in Adomnan s Life of Columba, Peritia 3 (1984 [1986]), 271-302 J M Picard, The purpose of Admonan s Vita Columbae, Peritia 1 (1982) [1983], 160-77 J M Picard, Bede, Adomnan and the writing of history, Peritia 2 (1983) [1984], 50-70 6. Life of Cuthbert and Lives of the Abbots C. W. Jones Saints' Lives and Chronicles Christopher Grocock and Ian Wood, Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow (Oxford, 2013); new edition and commentary on Lives of the Abbots, Homily on Benedict Biscop, Anon Life of Ceolfrith and Bede s Letter to Ecgberht Famulus Christi, ed. Gerald Bonner (1976), esp. papers of Patrick Wormald, 'Bede and Benedict Biscop', and papers of Meyvaert, Ray and Benedicta Ward (on miracles), and Wallace-Hadrill. James Campbell The Background to the Life of St Cuthbert, in St Cuthbert, his Cult and his Community, ed. Gerald Bonner and others (1989). Henry Mayr-Harting Bede, the Rule of St Benedict, and Social Class (Jarrow Lecture, 1976). Paul Meyvaert 'Bede and the Church Paintings at Wearmouth-Jarrow', Anglo- Saxon England 8 (1979). Walter Berschin 'Why did Bede write a second prose life of St Cuthbert?' in St Cuthbert, his Cult and his Community, ed. Gerald Bonner and others (1989). D.P. Kirby, The Genesis of a Cult: Cuthbert of Farne and Ecclesiastical Politics in Northumbria in the Late Seventh and Early Eighth Centuries, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 46 (1995), 383 97 4
Ian Wood Bede s Jarrow, in A Place to Believe in: Locating Medieval Landscapes, ed. Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing (University Park, PA, 2006), pp. 67-84 7. Bede's Homily for Benedict Biscop Wormald Bede and Benedict Biscop, as above. Henry Mayr-Harting Bede, the Rule of St Benedict, and Social Class (Jarrow Lecture, 1976). Grocock and Wood Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow (2013), pp. l- lix; 124-61 8. Aldhelm Michael Winterbottom 'Aldhelm's Prose Style and its Origins', Anglo-Saxon England, 6 (1977). Henry Mayr-Harting Coming of Christianity (relevant chapter). M. Lapidge and M. Herren, Aldhelm: the Prose Works (1979), for translations of writings, but also v useful introduction and notes M. Lapidge and J. Rosier, Aldhelm: the Poetic Works (1985) translations M. Lapidge, The Career of Aldhelm, Anglo-Saxon England 36 (2007) L.N. Braswell, The Dream of the Rood and Aldhelm on Sacred Prosopopoeia, Mediaeval Studies, 40 (1978). Barbara Yorke Aldhelm's Irish and British Connections, in K. Barker and N. Brooks (eds.) Aldhelm and Sherbourne: Essays to Celebrate the Founding of the Bishopric (Oxford, 2010), pp.164-180 A. Orchard, Latin and the Vernacular: the Creation of a Bilingual Textual Culture, in Thomas Charles-Edwards, After Rome, pp. 191 219, esp. 207 18 (valuable survey, c. Aldhelm to Alfred) 9. Boniface Ian Wood The Merovingian Kingdoms 450-751 (1994), ch. 18. W. Levison England and the Continent in the Eighth Century (1946), ch. 4 Henry Mayr-Harting Coming of Christianity (1991 edition), Chapter on St. Boniface J.M. Wallace-Hadrill, A Background to St Boniface s Mission, in his Early Medieval History (1975) pp. 138 54 C.H. Talbot, St Boniface and the German Mission, The Mission of the Church and the Propagation of the Faith, ed. G.J. Cuming (1970), pp. 45 57 Y. Hen, Milites Christi utriusque sexus: Gender and the Politics of Conversion in the Circle of Boniface, Revue bénédictine 109 (1999), 17 31 B. Yorke, The Bonifatian Mission and Female Religious in Wessex, Early Medieval Europe 7.2 (1998), 145 72 D. Rollason, Bede and Germany, Jarrow Lecture 2001 (2002) Ian Wood, The Missionary Life : Saints and the Evangelisation of Europe, 400-1050 (Harlow, 2001) James Palmer, Anglo-Saxons in a Frankish World 690-900 (2009) Roy Flechner, St Boniface as historian: a continental perspective on the organization of the early Anglo-Saxon Church, Anglo-Saxon England 41 (2013), 41-61 10. Women in the Church Sarah Foot, Veiled Women, I: The Disappearance of Nuns from Anglo- Saxon England (2000) B. Yorke, Nunneries and the Anglo-Saxon Royal Houses (2003) C. Neuman de Vegvar, Saints and Companions to Saints: Anglo-Saxon Royal Women Monastics in Context, in Holy Men and Holy Women: Old English Prose Saints Lives and their Contexts, ed. P.E. 5
Szarmach (1996) V. Ortenberg, Virgin Queens: Abbesses and Power in Early Anglo-Saxon England, in Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages: Studies presented to Henry Mayr-Harting, ed. R. Gameson and H. Leyser (2001), pp. 59 68 Sarah Foot Women, prayer and preaching in the early English Church, in Prayer and Thought in Monastic Tradition: Essays in Honour of Sr Benedicta Ward, ed. Santha Bhattacharji, Rowan Williams and Dominic Mattos (Bloomsbury, 2014), pp. 59-76 Peter Hunter Blair, Whitby as a centre of learning in the seventh century, in Learning and literature in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Michael Lapidge and Helmut Gneuss (1985), pp. 3-32 Diane Watt The earliest women s writing? Anglo- Saxon literary cultures and communities, Women s Writing 20 (2013), 537-54 [esp pp. 545-50 on authorship of the Whitby Life of Gregory the Great] 11. Art, Architecture, Archaeology Carl Nordenfalk Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Painting (1997). Rosemary Cramp 'Monastic Sites' in David Wilson, ed., The Archaeology of Anglo- Saxon England (1976), pp. 201-252. Eric Fernie The Architecture of the Anglo-Saxons (1983). C. R. Dodwell Anglo-Saxon Art: a New Perspective (1982) C. F. Battiscombe The Relics of St Cuthbert, ed. (1956), (esp. R. L. S. Bruce- Mitford on the Cuthbert Cross). Rosemary Cramp Early Northumbrian Sculpture (Jarrow Lecture, 1965). R. L. S. Bruce-Mitford 'The Art of the Codex Amiatinus', in Journal of the Archaeological Association 32 (1969). T. J. Brown Northumbria and the Book of Kells, Anglo-Saxon England 1 (1972). Françoise Henry Irish Art to A.D. 800 (1965 edition). J. Hawkes, Anglo-Saxon Sculpture: Questions of Context, in Northumbria s Golden Age, ed. J. Hawkes and S. Mills (1999), pp. 204 15, F. Orton, Northumbrian Sculpture the Ruthwell and Bewcastle Monuments: Questions of Difference, in Northumbria s Golden Age, ed. J. Hawkes and S. Mills (1999), pp. 216 26 Barbara Raw, The Dream of the Rood and its connections with Early Christian Art, Medium AEvum 39 (1970), 239-56 rev. SRIF 2015 6