The English Church and the Continent in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries : Cultural, Spiritual, and Artistic Exchanges

This study of the connections between the English and Continental Churches during this period draws on a range of sources to establish the strong and continual links between England and the countries of Christian Europe. Its analysis of successive areas of contact reveals much about the place of the English Church in high medieval christendom.

This is the first comprehensive study of the connections between the English and Continental churches during the tenth and eleventh centuries. Veronica Ortenberg draws on the whole range of narrative, liturgical, art-historical, and documentary sources to establish the strong and continuing links between England and the countries of Christian Europe in culture, spirituality, and art. Her analysis of the various areas of contact - France, Flanders, the German lands, Italy, Byzantium, and the Holy Land - highlights the central place of the English church in early medieval christendom. Dr Ortenberg''s work places the later Anglo-Saxon church exactly where it saw itself belonging: in the mainstream of European culture.Handsomely illustrated with thirty-one carefully chosen plates, this is a work of wide-ranging scholarship, which deepens our understanding of medieval culture and religion.