Table of Contents

Introduction: Church Leadership and the Anglo-Saxons - Alexander R. Rumble
Bede and the Early English Church - Nicholas Higham
Archbishop Ecgberht and his Dialogus - Martin Ryan
Abbatial Responsibility as Spiritual Labour: Suckling from the Male Breast - Cassandra Rhodes
Understanding the Earliest Bishops of Worcester c. 660-860 - Allan Scott McKinley
The Role of Bishops in Anglo-Saxon Succession Struggles, 955 x 978 - Dominik Wassenhoven
Image-Making: Portraits of Anglo-Saxon Church Leaders - Gale R. Owen-Crocker
'To Keep Silence Following the Rule's Command': Bishop Æthelwold, Reforming Ideology and Communication by Signs - Debby Banham
Wulfsige of Sherborne's Reforming Text - Joyce Hill
From Winchester to Canterbury: Ælfheah and Stigand - Bishops, Archbishops and Victims - Alexander R. Rumble

About the Author

Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita of the University of Manchester where she was previously Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies.

Reviews

Offer[s] much of value to students of the Anglo-Saxon church.
*EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE*

Filled with historical context and insight, particularly for those who work on the religious prose of Anglo-Saxon England.
*YEARS WORK IN ENGLISH STUDIES*

Underlines the significance of the ecclesiastical elite in Anglo-Saxon England.
*NORTHERN HISTORY, L, no. 2, September 2013*

A valuable collection of essays on a range of important subjects.
*JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY*