St Oswald of Worcester : life and influence /

St Oswald was the youngest of the three great monastic reformers of tenth-century England, whose work transformed English religious, intellectual and political life. Certainly a more attractive and perhaps a more effective figure than either St Dunstan or St Ethelwold, Oswald's impact upon his cathedrals at Worcester and York and upon his West Midland and East Anglian monasteries was radical and lasting. In this volume, researchers throw light on St Oswald's background, career, influence and cult and on the society that he helped to shape. His cathedral at Worcester and his monastery at Ramsey.Includes bibliographical references and indexes.St. Oswald : monk, bishop and archbishop / Donald Bullough -- Oswald, Fleury and continental reform / John Nightingale -- St. Oswald's family and kin / Andrew Wareham -- Byrhtferth and Oswald / Michael Lapidge -- The community of Worcester, 961-c.1100 / Julia Barrow -- St. Oswald's tenants / Vanessa King -- Oswaldslow : an 'immunity'? / Patrick Wormald -- The city of Worcester in the tenth century / Nigel Baker and Richard Holt -- The administrative landscape of the diocese of Worcester in the tenth century / Steven Bassett -- St. Oswald and 10,000 West Midland peasants / Christopher Dyer -- Book production and decoration at Worcester in the tenth and eleventh centuries / Richard Gameson -- Saint-making and relic collecting by Oswald and his communities / Alan Thacker -- St. Oswald and St. Wulfstan / Emma Mason -- The liturgical manuscripts of Oswald's houses / Alicia Corrêa -- Some reflections on liturgical music at late Anglo-Saxon Worcester / Susan Rankin.St Oswald was the youngest of the three great monastic reformers of tenth-century England, whose work transformed English religious, intellectual and political life. Certainly a more attractive and perhaps a more effective figure than either St Dunstan or St Ethelwold, Oswald's impact upon his cathedrals at Worcester and York and upon his West Midland and East Anglian monasteries was radical and lasting. In this volume, researchers throw light on St Oswald's background, career, influence and cult and on the society that he helped to shape. His cathedral at Worcester and his monastery at Ramsey