{"product_id":"liturgy-literature-and-history-oswald-of-northumbria-and-the-cult-of-saints-in-the-middle-ages-9781836245681","title":"Liturgy, Literature and History: Oswald of Northumbria and the Cult of Saints in the Middle Ages","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe centrality of the cult of saints to medieval Christianity is reflected in surviving liturgical, historical, literary and administrative texts, material culture and architecture. Too often, however, disciplinary boundaries mean these sources are studied in isolation from one another. This volume takes a multi-disciplinary approach to uncover both the mechanisms by which saints' cults spread and also the manner in which veneration of the saints drove other forms of political, cultural and social expression. Focussed on the cult of Oswald of Northumbria in the high Middle Ages, this volume brings together historians, literary scholars, musicologists and art historians to explore the cult of saints through texts, objects, space, sound and the senses and particularly interrogates the influence of liturgy on society. Oswald's cult spread far in time and space from its origins in seventh-century Northumbria, and the essays in this volume seek to understand how liturgical commemoration and celebration of Oswald in different times and places drove developments in cultural expression, initiating new styles in musical as well as visual and material art forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDale, Johanna:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Johanna Dale is a research fellow in the Department of History at UCL, where she previously held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. She is Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded project 'Liturgical and Literary Landscapes: the cult of St Oswald of Northumbria in the German-speaking world'. Her first book, Inauguration and Liturgical Kingship in the Long Twelfth Century: Male and Female Accession Rituals in England, France and the Empire (Woodbridge, 2019) was shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize. She has also published numerous articles and edited several collections of essays, including St Peter-on-the-Wall: Landscape and Heritage on the Essex Coast (London, 2023).","brand":"British Academy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51779429499154,"sku":"9781836245681","price":126.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_504c0a28-b8ba-41d6-9181-95430c476695.jpg?v=1765370788","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/liturgy-literature-and-history-oswald-of-northumbria-and-the-cult-of-saints-in-the-middle-ages-9781836245681","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}