IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1629: Reform and Æthelwold of Winchester
Thursday 9 July 2015, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Julia Steuart Barrow, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Sarah Foot, Faculty of Theology & Religion, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1629-a | Æthelwold's Influence: His Students and the Episcopal Elite (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Social History |
| Paper 1629-b | Æthelwold of Winchester and the Ideology of Ecclesiastical Property in the Benedictine Reforms (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Economics - Rural, Hagiography |
| Paper 1629-c | Æthelwold in the 12th Century: His Cult and Legacy (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval |
| Abstract | St Æthelwold, bishop of Winchester, was one of the leading ideologues of the 10th-century monastic reform in England. He was also a skilled organiser and politician. This session investigates how he trained up his pupils and how they made careers in the English church, how he set out to revive the Anglo-Saxon Church of Bede's age by promoting saints' cults and reacquiring ecclesiastical property, and how his legacy was interpreted by English historians in the 12th century. |