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The Winchester Powerhouse

Af: Anthony Paice Engelsk Hardback

The Winchester Powerhouse

Af: Anthony Paice Engelsk Hardback
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Presenting portraits of the Winchester bishops down to the Norman Conquest, The Winchester Power-House is the first volume of a study covering the lives of some one hundred holders of the high ecclesiastical office. Characterised overwhelmingly by benevolence, the pre-Conquest prelates were at the forefront of the reconversion of southern Britain to Christianity.

Beyond their spiritual role, however, they also helped to make Winchester – rather than London or Canterbury – the powerhouse of the expanding kingdom of Wessex and eventually of all England; they helped ensure that it remained the most prized and prestigious diocese in England down to the Reformation.

As key counsellors to the Wessex kings, as reformers, even warriors on occasion, these men exerted a strong influence on the introduction of successive Saxon legal codes and judicial process. Indeed, during the development of an embryonic royal chancery in the early 11th century, the bishop was invariably the choice for chancellor, the king’s chief minister. It is no accident that the last bishop, Stigand, was both bishop of Winchester and archbishop of Canterbury.

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Presenting portraits of the Winchester bishops down to the Norman Conquest, The Winchester Power-House is the first volume of a study covering the lives of some one hundred holders of the high ecclesiastical office. Characterised overwhelmingly by benevolence, the pre-Conquest prelates were at the forefront of the reconversion of southern Britain to Christianity.

Beyond their spiritual role, however, they also helped to make Winchester – rather than London or Canterbury – the powerhouse of the expanding kingdom of Wessex and eventually of all England; they helped ensure that it remained the most prized and prestigious diocese in England down to the Reformation.

As key counsellors to the Wessex kings, as reformers, even warriors on occasion, these men exerted a strong influence on the introduction of successive Saxon legal codes and judicial process. Indeed, during the development of an embryonic royal chancery in the early 11th century, the bishop was invariably the choice for chancellor, the king’s chief minister. It is no accident that the last bishop, Stigand, was both bishop of Winchester and archbishop of Canterbury.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 208
ISBN-13: 9781835740835
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1835740839
Kategori: South & South East England
Udg. Dato: 28 nov 2024
Længde: 19mm
Bredde: 164mm
Højde: 239mm
Forlag: The Book Guild Ltd
Oplagsdato: 28 nov 2024
Forfatter(e): Anthony Paice
Forfatter(e) Anthony Paice

Kategori South & South East England

ISBN-13 9781835740835

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 208

Udgave

Længde 19mm

Bredde 164mm

Højde 239mm

Udg. Dato 28 nov 2024

Oplagsdato 28 nov 2024

Forlag The Book Guild Ltd