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1996 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 664-666
Author(s):  
Allen J. Frantzen
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Medieval England ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Early Medieval

scholarly journals Archaeology and the built environment of early medieval England

Antiquity ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 93 (368) ◽  
pp. 537-539
Author(s):  
Duncan W. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Medieval England ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Broken Bones ◽  
Literary Sources

The bulk of people we can now be assured, were content with something that hardly deserves a better title than that of a hovel […] in such cabins, with bare head room, amid a filthy litter of broken bones, of food and shattered pottery […] lived the Anglo-Saxons (Leeds 1936: 25–26). This quote from E.T. Leeds, a pioneer of Anglo-Saxon archaeology during the first half of the twentieth century, was inspired by his excavation of settlement remains at Sutton Courtenay, then in Berkshire. Leeds's excavations were actually a breakthrough moment, resulting in the first identification of early medieval settlement structures other than those associated with ecclesiastical sites. In spite of this, the frustration and disappointment with the character and quality of the Sutton Courtenay site are all too apparent in Leeds's assessment. As an expert in Anglo-Saxon artwork, how could he reconcile the skill and craft of fine metalwork, with the ephemeral and impoverished settlement with which he was now dealing? Likewise, where were the great charismatic halls of monumental construction that populated such literary sources as Beowulf? The excavation of the graves of Sutton Hoo, two years after investigations at Sutton Courtney came to a close, served only to amplify the disparity between settlement and burial archaeology—put simply, burials were viewed as richer, grander and far more interesting.

The sevenfold-fivefold-threefold litany of the saints in the Leofric Missal and beyond

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 183-208
Author(s):  
Robin Norris
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Special Form ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Holy Saturday ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
Continental Source ◽  
Over Time

AbstractThe brief litany of saints in the Leofric Missal is the oldest complete extant specimen of the sevenfold-fivefold-threefold prayer used for baptism on Holy Saturday. This continental innovation became widespread in Anglo-Saxon England, and was used in Ireland into the twelfth century. The petitions of this special form, probably from an English source, appear in the brief litany of the Corpus Irish Missal, alongside invocations either standardized by the scribe or adapted from a continental source. Through the evolution of the sevenfold-fivefold-threefold litany over time and across cultures, we see concrete evidence of the patterns of cultural transmission that shaped early medieval Europe.

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