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 AEthelwold, 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 the researches of a team of leading scholars throw new 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 were among the richest and best documented Anglo-Saxon churches. The volume therefore provides a window on to the realities of tenth-century English politics, religion and economics in the light of contemporary developments on the continent.

St. Oswald of Worcester (Studies in the Early History of Britain)

Brooks, Stephenson

Religion & Spirituality

Leicester University Press

In this careful study, the unparalleled sayings in Matthew (the 'M' sayings) are investigated as a source of evidence for a reconstruction of the history of the community in which the various traditions were preserved. Using a wide range of criteria, Dr Brooks isolates fourteen 'M' sayings from major concentrations of unparalleled material in Matt. 5.17-6.18 and chs. 10 and 23, supplementing these with four additional sayings. The picture of the traditions that emerges provides the basis for a new hypothesis that reconstructs a three-stage history of the Matthean community, thereby accounting for the presence of some mutually exclusive traditions in the Gospel.

Matthew's Community: The Evidence of his Special Sayings Material (The Library of New Testament Studies)

Christian Books & Bibles

Bloomsbury Academic

Bessie Smith released 159 recordings, nearly all of which are considered classics. This book sets out to describe the details of Bessie's technique and to assess its appropriateness to the material with which she was presented. It is one of the first works devoted to the serious investigation of the Blues as a genre.

Bessie Smith Companion

Arts & Photography

Music

Continuum Intl Pub Group

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