Archbishop Theodore: Commemorative Studies on his Life and Influence

by Michael Lapidge

Overview

Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury (668SH90), shaped the English Church into a structure it has retained for a millennium. Yet until recently he has remained a shadowy figure, whose early career in the Near East and at Rome has been unknown. In this book, which builds on the 1994 publication of previously unprinted Biblical commentaries from Theodore's Canterbury school, internationally distinguished scholars provide a fresh account of the career and writings of a unique personality who brought to Anglo-Saxon England the cultural heritage of Syria, Byzantium and Rome.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521480772
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/08/1995
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England , #11
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	6.22(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.94(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. The career of Archbishop Theodore Michael Lapidge; 2. The Syriac background Sebastian P. Brock; 3. Theodore of Tarsus and the Greek culture of his time Guglielmo Cavallo; 4. Rome in the seventh century Thomas F. X. Noble; 5. Theodore, the English church and the monothelete controversy Henry Chadwick; 6. The importation of Mediterranean manuscripts into Theodore's England David N. Dumville; 7. Theodore and the Latin canon law Martin Brett; 8. The Penitential of Theodore and the Iudicia Theodori Thomas Charles-Edwards; 9. Theodore and the Passio S. Anastasii Carmela Vircillo Franklin; 10. Theodore and the Laterculus Malalianus Jane Barbara Stevenson; 11. Theodore and the liturgy Christopher Hohler; 12. Theodore's Bible: the Pentateuch Richard Marsden; 13. Theodore's Bible: the gospels Patrick McGurk; 14. Theodore and Anglo-Latin octosyllabic verse Michael Lapidge; 15. The Canterbury Bible glosses: facts and problems J. D. Pheifer; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of seventh-century Anglo-Saxon ecclesiastical history." Albion

"These essays are all of high calibre and the editor is to be congratulated upon gathering them." Anglican Theological Review

"The book is scholarship at its most austere, but it is pervaded by a sense of barely suppressed excitement in almost all the contributions....The book opens vistas that promise rich results for the history of the early Middle Ages...." Eric John, Catholic Historical Review

"The volume as a whole is a fitting tribute to the great Archbishop and will be especially enlightening to the Anglo-Saxonist used to thinking of the English Church only in relation to its Celtic and Roman counterparts." The Canadian Catholic Review

"...first-rate and sheds interesting new light on an obscure corner of early medieval religious and intellectual culture." John J. Contreni, Religious Studies Review

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