Collection: The Anglo Saxon Minsters of Winchester

The Anglo-Saxon Minsters of Winchester

Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle et al.

A definitive multi-volume study of Winchester’s Anglo-Saxon minsters—Old Minster, New Minster and Nunnaminster—integrating archaeological, documentary and scientific evidence to reconstruct their development, burial practices, and role in royal power and the cult of St Swithun. READ MORE

Hardback: £330.00

Property and Piety in Early Medieval Winchester

Alexander R. Rumble

Winchester in the Anglo-Saxon and early Norman periods was an important royal and religious centre. This volume comprises an edition and translation, with extensive commentary, of thirty-three Anglo-Saxon and Norman documents relating to the topography and minsters of early medieval Winchester. READ MORE

Hardback: £58.00 | Open Access

The Cult of St Swithun

Michael Lapidge

Following the translation of his relics from a conspicuous tomb into the Old Minster, Winchester, the massive rebuilding of the cathedral, and a vigorous publicity campaign by Bishop Aethelwold (963-84), St Swithun became one of the most popular and important English saints, whose cult was widespread in England, Ireland, Scandinavia, and France. READ MORE

Hardback: £115.00 | Open Access

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