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By Victoria Thompson

ISBN-10: 1843830701

ISBN-13: 9781843830702

This wide-ranging research of later Anglo-Saxon tradition and society might be fundamental to scholars of background, literature and archaeology. The death-bed and funerary practices of this era were relatively and unjustly ignored by means of historic scholarship; Victoria Thompson examines them within the context of confessional and penitential literature, wills, poetry, chronicles and homilies, to teach that complicated and ambiguous rules approximately loss of life have been present in any respect degrees of Anglo-Saxon society. an immense pastoral instruction manual for the confessor (Bodley MS. Laud Misc. 482) is the following given its first prolonged research. in addition to those varied textual assets, her examine additionally takes in grave monuments, displaying specifically how the Anglo-Scandinavian sculpture of the 9th to 11th centuries might point out not just the prestige, but additionally the non secular and cultural alignment of these who commissioned and made them. What this learn tells us approximately pre-Conquest attitudes in the direction of the loss of life and the lifeless has implications for each point of tradition, faith and society.

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80 Questions were raised earlier about whether Æthelflæd’s behaviour could be seen as gender-specific in any way. Other than that tantalizing reference to her feelings at Derby, the conclusion must be no. She and her brother Edward acted in parallel, each founding new mausoleum churches in their respective revitalized urban centres of Winchester and Gloucester. Creating an appropriate environment for burial was a pious action suitable for both men and women. 81 Establishing proprietary churches became one of the defining activities of tenthcentury aristocrats.

1–18. Whitelock, Wills, p. 105, n. 19. J. Blair, ‘Minster Churches in the Landscape’, in D. ), Anglo-Saxon Settlements (Oxford, 1988), pp. 35–58, 40. 24 Anglo-Saxon/01/p 30/3/04 11:53 AM Page 25 Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 relationship with her is unlikely to have ended at death. The Worcester community, if they fulfilled their obligations, would have continued to remember her, singing Laudate Dominum three times a day and celebrating mass on Saturday to keep her gemynde (memory) fresh.

Our perception of Æthelflæd is entirely governed by these very limited sources, which present her in her public roles as warrior, patron, judge. We only catch glimpses of her extensive network of genuine and fictive kin relationships. Nothing will tell us who washed and dressed her body in Tamworth, and brought it to its final resting-place ‘in the east porticus of St Peter’s at Gloucester’, or who, other than the clerics of St Oswald’s, attended her funeral. Whoever these people were, their 77 78 79 80 81 M.

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