Dedicated as a memorial to the great historian of England and
the Continent in the eighth century, Wilhelm Levison, this book
provides the widest and most in-depth exploration to date of
relations between England and the Continent during an equally
crucial period, the tenth century. The volume, which comes out of a
sustained collaboration between English and Continental
universities, contains thematically arranged essays by established
leading specialists and also by younger scholars. By building on
the approaches used by Levison as well as other methods that have
been developed in the decades since his death, these essays tackle
a broad range of questions: What routeways and modes of contact
linked England with the Continent? How similar were attitudes to
rulership and dynastic strategies? How did the law, the working of
government, and the organization and culture of the church differ
between England and the Continent? How was the past seen and
represented on the two sides of the English Channel? In answering
these questions, this volume offers news ways of exploring the
links and developing the comparison between England and the
Continent in the century after the collapse of the Carolingian
Empire, a formative period for the development of Europe.
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: England and the Continent - CONRAD LEYSER
Part I: Routeways, Contacts, and Attitudes
Routeways between England and the Continent in the Tenth Century - STÉPHANE LEBECQ AND ALBAN GAUTIER
Continental Germanic Personal Names in Tenth-Century England - JOHN INSLEY
Exiles, Abbots, Wives, and Messengers: Anglo-Saxons in the Tenth-Century Reich - ANDREAS BIHRER
Flemish Monasticism, Comital Power, and the Archbishops of Canterbury: A Written Legacy from the Late Tenth Century - STEVEN VANDERPUTTEN
An Itinerant English Master around the Millennium - RICHARD GAMESON
A Carolingian Scholar in the Court of King Æthelstan - MICHAEL WOOD
England and the Papacy in the Tenth Century - FRANCESCA TINTI
Relations between Fleury and England - MARCO MOSTERT
Part II: Kingship, Royal Models, and Dynastic Strategies
‘The King from Overseas’: Why Did Æthelstan Matter in Tenth-Century Continental Affairs? - VERONICA ORTENBERG
Dynastic Strategies: The West Saxon Royal Family in Europe - SARAH FOOT
Monastic Reform and Royal Ideology in the Late Tenth Century: Ælfthryth and Edgar in Continental Perspective - SIMON MACLEAN
Comparative Approaches to Anglo-Saxon and Ottonian Coronations - DAVID A. WARNER
Tenth-Century Kingship Comparatively - JANET L. NELSON
Part III: Law and the Working of Government
Kingship and Palaces in the Ottonian Realm and in the Kingdom of England - THOMAS ZOTZ
Written Law and the Communication of Authority in Tenth-Century England - DAVID PRATT
Legal Culture in Tenth-Century Lotharingia - CHARLES WEST
Part IV: The Church: Organization and Culture
Where are the Parishes? Where are the Minsters? The Organization of the Spanish Church in the Tenth Century - WENDY DAVIES
Pastoral Care before the Parish: Aspects of the Early Ecclesiastical Organization of Scandinavia, especially Sweden - STEFAN BRINK
The Early Pontificals: The Anglo-Saxon Evidence Reconsidered from a Continental Perspective - SARAH HAMILTON
The Divine Office and the Secular Clergy in Later Anglo-Saxon England - JESSE D. BILLETT
The Policy on Relic Translations of Baldwin II of Flanders (879–918), Edward of Wessex (899–924) and Æthelflaed of Mercia (d. 924): A Key to Anglo-Flemish Relations? - BRIGITTE MEIJNS
Part V: The Vision of the Past
The Interests of Historians in the Tenth Century - THOMAS F. X. NOBLE
Insular History? Forgery and the English Past in the Tenth Century - JULIA CRICK
The Image of Roman History in Anglo-Saxon England - YANN COZ
Index
"(...) the broad rang of the essays in this volume, and the high quality of many of them, make a fitting tribute to Wilhelm Levison's impressively wide scholarly range." (M. Gretsch, in: English Historical Review, CXXVII, 525, April 2012, p. 411-413)