The Unfinished Chapel at Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, and Ecclesiastical Politics in The Early Eleventh Century
An examination of the decorative elements on the structure of the Anglo-Saxon chapel of St Laurence at Bradford on Avon, Wilts., has suggested that the total decorative scheme, comprising different elements, was abandoned before completion. This hypothesis arises from an examination of the carved moulding on some of the internal and external pilasters, the external blind arcading, and the ‘unfinished’ rood on the eastern wall of the nave. A historical context for this is suggested in the abandonment of the nearly completed building on the death of King Æthelred, the sponsor of the construction of the chapel as a cult centre for Edward the Martyr from AD 1001. While his successor King Cnut would probably have been supportive of the continuation of the cult at Shaftesbury, the chapel was arguably soon abandoned because the underlying religious and political rationale for its construction no longer obtained in the circumstances of the new king's regime.
The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England: A Study of West Saxon and East Anglian Cults
The royal saints of Anglo-Saxon England - some problems of interpretation the sources royal birth and the foundations of sanctity - theoretical interpretations the cult of St Edburga at Winchester and Pershore the children of Edgar the royal cults of Ely the cult of St Edmond piety, patronage and politics - towards an understanding of the Anglo-Saxon royal cults. Appendices: the life of St Edburga of Winchester by Osbert of Clare, prior of Westminster two items concerning St Edburga of Winchester from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 451.
The Defence of Wessex: The Burghal Hidage and Anglo-Saxon Fortifications
Part 1 Introduction, David Hill and Alexander R. Rumble. Part 2 The development of Burghal Hidage studies - a bibliographical review, David Hill. Part 3 An edition and translation of the Burghal Hidage, together with Recension C of the Tribal Hidage, Alexander R. Rumble. Part 4 The manuscript evidence - the known manuscript of the Burghal Hidage, Alexander R. Rumble BL Cotton MS. Otho B. xi - a supplementary note, Patrick Wormald. Part 5 The Burghal Hidage as a document: diplomatic sub-sections, Alexander R. Rumble the nature of the figures, David Hill the West Saxon hidage and the "appendix", Nicholas P. Brooks the calculation and the purpose of the Burghal Hidage, David Hill. Part 6 The Burghal Hidage place-names: a linguistic analysis of the place-names of the Burghal Hidage, John McN. Dodgson a collation of the Burghal Hidage place-name forms, Alexander R. Rumble. Part 7 The administrative background to the Burghal Hidage, Nicholas P. Brooks. Part 8 The fortifications and their shires, David A. Hinton. Part 9 Mints, burhs and the Grately code, cap. 14.2, Mark Blackburn gazetteer of Burghal Hidage sites, David Hill. Appendices: OU wealstilling, John McN. Dodgson OE waru, Alexander R. Rumble the Tribal Hidage - an annotated bibliography, Alexander R. Rumble the historical context of the Tribal Hidage, N.J. Higham the County Hidage, David Austin.