The Bishopric of Durham in the Late Middle Ages: Lordship, Community and the Cult of St Cuthbert

Neuausgabe 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84383-377-2
Verlag: BOYDELL PR

Buch, Englisch, Band VOLU, 292 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 807 g

Reihe: Regions and Regionalism in His

New study sets the medieval palatinate of Durham firmly in the context of a community built round the cult of St Cuthbert.

North-East England contained some distinctive power structures during the late middle ages, notably the palatinate of Durham, where writs were issued in the name of the bishop of Durham rather than of the king and the bishop exercised secular authority as earl palatine. The core of the palatinate was the bishopric of Durham, an area bounded by the rivers Tyne and Tees and distinguished by an illustrious tradition, focusing upon Durham cathedral and the cult of St Cuthbert. Here resided the Haliwerfolc, the 'people of the saint'.

This book, unlike previous interpretations which have tended to approach Durham primarily as a form of devolved royal power whose autonomywas gradually circumscribed by the crown, reviews the operation of palatine government in the light of more recent paradigms about the nature of power and identity in medieval England. In particular, it sees the concept of the county community as critical to a new understanding of the social and political history of the bishopric. In Durham this was a community built not upon patterns of landholding, social interaction or office-holding; it was in the concept of the Haliwerfolc and in the cult of St Cuthbert that the inhabitants of the bishopric possessed their own distinctive culture of community and identity.

CHRISTIAN D. LIDDY is Lecturer in History at the University of Durham.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Liddy, Christian D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Land and Power
Lordship and Society
Office-Holding
The Haliwerfolc and the Politics of Community
Epilogue