Catherine Cubitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1711837 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Cubitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Cubitt |
| SIGNATURE | CUBITT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6147-6668 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Narrating providential history
This article takes Bede's account of the conversion of King Edwin of Northumbria as a case study in the mechanics and function of narrative. It is now recognized that Bede's sources for his Ecclesiastical History were very limited and that in composing it he relied upon his own deductions as a historian and upon his narrative skill to provide circumstantial detail and causal connections. This article shows how Bede exploited oral narratives to cr…
Ostriches, Spiders’ Webs and Antichrist
This article examines the use of the concepts of hypocrisy and the hypocrite in the writings of Pope Gregory the Great (590–604) and Archbishop Wulfstan of York (1002–23). Although separated by many centuries, these two treatments are connected through Wulfstan's debt to Gregory's ideas on the evil of hypocrisy, and particularly in his depiction of Antichrist as the chief of all hypocrites. Both use the idea of hypocrisy to critique their contemp…
Apocalyptic and Eschatological Thought in England Around the Year 1000
This article explores the ideas circulating in England c . 1000 about the fate of the soul after death, the afterlife and the Last Judgement. It looks at the discourse concerning these topics in the sermons of the Blickling Homilies, Vercelli Book and in sermons by Wulfstan and Ælfric, and argues for lively debate c . 1000 concerning the imminence of the End. It suggests that these texts, especially those by Wulfstan and Ælfric, should be seen in…
The politics of remorse
Journal Article The politics of remorse: penance and royal piety in the reign of Æthelred the Unready Get access Catherine Cubitt Catherine Cubitt University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 85, Issue 228, May 2012, Pages 179–192, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2011.00571.x Published: 11 April 2012
As the Lawbook Teaches
Journal Article 'As the Lawbook Teaches': Reeves, Lawbooks and Urban Life in the Anonymous Old English Legend of the Seven Sleepers Get access Catherine Cubitt Catherine Cubitt University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIV, Issue 510, October 2009, Pages 1021–1049, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cep220 Published: 03 September 2009
Folklore and Historiography
This collection deliberately brings together work which is chronologically, geographically and generically diverse. Texts studied include traditional narrative historiography, alongside poetry, chronicles, charters, dispute settlements and hagiography. The essays range from Italy and Frankia to Scandinavia and England, as they examine texts produced from the seventh to the early twelfth century. In exploring the nature and function of narrative i…
Bishops, priests and penance in late Saxon England
This article examines the textual and manuscript evidence for the practice of penance in late Saxon England. It also examines the significance for pastoral care of the linguistic evidence for specialized vernacular terms for penance: ‘scrift’ for ‘confessor’, ‘dædbote’ and compounds of ‘hreow’ for ‘penance’ and ‘remorse’. The linguistic and textual evidence suggests that penance was a regular part of lay piety. The manuscript evidence, on the oth…
The clergy in early Anglo-Saxon England
The presence of the clergy in the early Anglo-Saxon church has been neglected because of the concentration on monasticism and the view that there was no contemporary differentiation between monastic establishments and clerical ones. This article addresses the evidence for the clergy by reviewing the terminology for both institutions and their personnel. It argues that the clergy were an important part of religious life in early Anglo-Saxon Englan…
The history of the emotions
Sites and sanctity
The cults of the murdered and martyred royal saints of Anglo‐Saxon England have been interpreted as political in origin and this view has received widespread acceptance. This article, which discusses the cults of the kings, Oswald, Oswiu and Edwin of Northumbria, and Edward the Martyr and those of the princes, Kenelm of Mercia and Æthelred and Æthelberht of Kent, puts forward a new interpretation, suggesting that their cults originated in lay and…
Virginity and Misogyny in Tenth‐ and Eleventh‐Century England
The tenth‐century Benedictine Reform in England
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access CATHERINE CUBITT CATHERINE CUBITT University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 441, April 1996, Pages 409–410, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.441.409 Published: 01 April 1996
Unity and Diversity in the Early Anglo-Saxon Liturgy
The early Anglo-Saxon Church felt that it possessed a special relationship with the papacy and Rome, going back (according to Bede) to the Gregorian mission of 597. Despite setbacks to this mission, unity with the Church of Rome triumphed over Irish traditions to become the keystone in the identity of the English Church. Imitation of Roman liturgical customs was a significant element in this union. In the early days of the Gregorian mission, litu…
As the Lawbook Teaches
Journal Article 'As the Lawbook Teaches': Reeves, Lawbooks and Urban Life in the Anonymous Old English Legend of the Seven Sleepers Get access Catherine Cubitt Catherine Cubitt University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIV, Issue 510, October 2009, Pages 1021–1049, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cep220 Published: 03 September 2009
The tenth‐century Benedictine Reform in England
Virginity and Misogyny in Tenth‐ and Eleventh‐Century England
Bishops, priests and penance in late Saxon England
This article examines the textual and manuscript evidence for the practice of penance in late Saxon England. It also examines the significance for pastoral care of the linguistic evidence for specialized vernacular terms for penance: ‘scrift’ for ‘confessor’, ‘dædbote’ and compounds of ‘hreow’ for ‘penance’ and ‘remorse’. The linguistic and textual evidence suggests that penance was a regular part of lay piety. The manuscript evidence, on the oth…
The clergy in early Anglo-Saxon England
The presence of the clergy in the early Anglo-Saxon church has been neglected because of the concentration on monasticism and the view that there was no contemporary differentiation between monastic establishments and clerical ones. This article addresses the evidence for the clergy by reviewing the terminology for both institutions and their personnel. It argues that the clergy were an important part of religious life in early Anglo-Saxon Englan…
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access CATHERINE CUBITT CATHERINE CUBITT University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 441, April 1996, Pages 409–410, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.441.409 Published: 01 April 1996
Unity and Diversity in the Early Anglo-Saxon Liturgy
The early Anglo-Saxon Church felt that it possessed a special relationship with the papacy and Rome, going back (according to Bede) to the Gregorian mission of 597. Despite setbacks to this mission, unity with the Church of Rome triumphed over Irish traditions to become the keystone in the identity of the English Church. Imitation of Roman liturgical customs was a significant element in this union. In the early days of the Gregorian mission, litu…
The tenth‐century Benedictine Reform in England
Sites and sanctity
The cults of the murdered and martyred royal saints of Anglo‐Saxon England have been interpreted as political in origin and this view has received widespread acceptance. This article, which discusses the cults of the kings, Oswald, Oswiu and Edwin of Northumbria, and Edward the Martyr and those of the princes, Kenelm of Mercia and Æthelred and Æthelberht of Kent, puts forward a new interpretation, suggesting that their cults originated in lay and…
Virginity and Misogyny in Tenth‐ and Eleventh‐Century England
The history of the emotions
The clergy in early Anglo-Saxon England
The presence of the clergy in the early Anglo-Saxon church has been neglected because of the concentration on monasticism and the view that there was no contemporary differentiation between monastic establishments and clerical ones. This article addresses the evidence for the clergy by reviewing the terminology for both institutions and their personnel. It argues that the clergy were an important part of religious life in early Anglo-Saxon Englan…
Folklore and Historiography
This collection deliberately brings together work which is chronologically, geographically and generically diverse. Texts studied include traditional narrative historiography, alongside poetry, chronicles, charters, dispute settlements and hagiography. The essays range from Italy and Frankia to Scandinavia and England, as they examine texts produced from the seventh to the early twelfth century. In exploring the nature and function of narrative i…
Bishops, priests and penance in late Saxon England
This article examines the textual and manuscript evidence for the practice of penance in late Saxon England. It also examines the significance for pastoral care of the linguistic evidence for specialized vernacular terms for penance: ‘scrift’ for ‘confessor’, ‘dædbote’ and compounds of ‘hreow’ for ‘penance’ and ‘remorse’. The linguistic and textual evidence suggests that penance was a regular part of lay piety. The manuscript evidence, on the oth…
As the Lawbook Teaches
Journal Article 'As the Lawbook Teaches': Reeves, Lawbooks and Urban Life in the Anonymous Old English Legend of the Seven Sleepers Get access Catherine Cubitt Catherine Cubitt University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIV, Issue 510, October 2009, Pages 1021–1049, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cep220 Published: 03 September 2009
The politics of remorse
Journal Article The politics of remorse: penance and royal piety in the reign of Æthelred the Unready Get access Catherine Cubitt Catherine Cubitt University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 85, Issue 228, May 2012, Pages 179–192, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2011.00571.x Published: 11 April 2012
Apocalyptic and Eschatological Thought in England Around the Year 1000
This article explores the ideas circulating in England c . 1000 about the fate of the soul after death, the afterlife and the Last Judgement. It looks at the discourse concerning these topics in the sermons of the Blickling Homilies, Vercelli Book and in sermons by Wulfstan and Ælfric, and argues for lively debate c . 1000 concerning the imminence of the End. It suggests that these texts, especially those by Wulfstan and Ælfric, should be seen in…
Narrating providential history
This article takes Bede's account of the conversion of King Edwin of Northumbria as a case study in the mechanics and function of narrative. It is now recognized that Bede's sources for his Ecclesiastical History were very limited and that in composing it he relied upon his own deductions as a historian and upon his narrative skill to provide circumstantial detail and causal connections. This article shows how Bede exploited oral narratives to cr…
Ostriches, Spiders’ Webs and Antichrist
This article examines the use of the concepts of hypocrisy and the hypocrite in the writings of Pope Gregory the Great (590–604) and Archbishop Wulfstan of York (1002–23). Although separated by many centuries, these two treatments are connected through Wulfstan's debt to Gregory's ideas on the evil of hypocrisy, and particularly in his depiction of Antichrist as the chief of all hypocrites. Both use the idea of hypocrisy to critique their contemp…
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