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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Benedictine Reform"”.
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Rebel angels: political theology and the fall of the angels tradition in old English literature
… and the cultural logic of rebellion and reform – in unearthly authority. This extra-biblical narrative shaped prevailing attitudes towards lordship and dissent and underwrote protocols for counteracting crises such as ecclesiastical corruption, external invasion, and social disobedience. …
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Sanctity in Tenth-Century Anglo-Latin Hagiography: Wulfstan of Winchester's Vita Sancti Æthelwoldi and Byrhtferth of Ramsey's Vita Sancti Oswaldi
… and examples from the broad context of 'the Benedictine Reform' in order to investigate the ways in which texts and ideas were manipulated or negotiated to promote particular political and ecclesiastical interests. These include the influence of certain types of narrative, for example, …
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Perceptions of the Past in Late Anglo-Saxon England: Historiographical and Antiquarian Practice c. 960–1020
… of first- and second-generation monastic reformers shaped beliefs about the origins and history of the English. First proposed by Patrick Wormald, Antonia Gransden, and Alan Thacker in the 1980s, the golden-age theory of monastic reform proposes that the ‘Big Three’ bishops (Dunstan, …