medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Phyllis Jestice <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Oswald of Worcester (d. 992) Oswald was a noble of Danish descent,
educated at Canterbury and then dean of Winchester. He wanted to be a monk
during a very dry spell for monasticism in England, so went to Fleury for
monastic training.... Oswald played an important role in the monastic and more
general ecclesiastical reform movement in tenth-century England.
i've been poking around A-S England <=> Fleury <=> Chartres [artistic]
connections of circa 1000 for the last few months and have been very impressed
with the amount of *cross* fertilisation which was apparently going on --in
both directions.
as i see it --vaguely-- Fleury was largely "responsible" for the A-S reform
which began (??) with Oswald, then, in the 990s or so, it received some of the
brilliant fruits of that reform's sucess in the form of a very advanced style
of manuscript illumination
http://centrechartraine.freeservers.com/mss/fleurymss/orleans175p149.jpg
http://centrechartraine.freeservers.com/mss/fleurymss/orleans175p149-d3.jpg
which seems to have gotten a toe-hold (more or less) in the Fleury scriptorium
http://centrechartraine.freeservers.com/mss/fleurymss/orleans175p175.jpg
from which it may have spread to other sites in France having solid
connections with Fleury (which places were legion, apparently).
one of the things which i find particularly intriguing is the two-way flow of
the various aspects of monastic culture which were being exchanged.
the key figure in this seems to have been Abbo, monk of Fleury, who spent
several years at Ramsey, before going back home to become abbot there in 988,
and, presumably, brought his sudies of grammar, astronomy, mathematics, and
philosophy to English shores.
comments would be welcome from anyone who actually knows something about this
subject.
best from here,
christopher
Gib$son'$ Folly:
http://images.ucomics.com/comics/jd/2004/jd040224.gif
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