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The Bishopric of Durham in the Late Middle Ages
Christian Drummond Liddy
其他書名
Lordship, Community and the Cult of St Cuthbert
出版Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2008
主題Biography & Autobiography / ReligiousHistory / GeneralHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Europe / Great Britain / Norman Conquest to Late Medieval (1066-1485)History / WorldHistory / Europe / MedievalReligion / Christianity / HistoryReligion / Christian Church / History
ISBN18438337789781843833772
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=R6ZbDEhf86sC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋North-East England contained some distinctive power structures during the late middle ages, notably the palatinate of Durham, where writs were issued in the name of the bishop of Durham rather than of the king and the bishop exercised secular authority as earl palatine. The core of the palatinate was the bishopric of Durham, an area bounded by the rivers Tyne and Tees and distinguished by an illustrious tradition, focusing upon Durham cathedral and the cult of St Cuthbert. Here resided the Haliwerfolc, the 'people of the saint'.

This book, unlike previous interpretations which have tended to approach Durham primarily as a form of devolved royal power whose autonomy was gradually circumscribed by the crown, reviews the operation of palatine government in the light of more recent paradigms about the nature of power and identity in medieval England. In particular, it sees the concept of the county community as critical to a new understanding of the social and political history of the bishopric. In Durham this was a community built not upon patterns of landholding, social interaction or office-holding; it was in the concept of the Haliwerfolc and in the cult of St Cuthbert that the inhabitants of the bishopric possessed their own distinctive culture of community and identity.

CHRISTIAN D. LIDDY is Lecturer in History at the University of Durham.