David Rollason
Biographic Data
| ID | 3980343 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Rollason |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Rollason |
| SIGNATURE | ROLLASON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Writing History in the Anglo-Norman World
Early Medieval Europe 300–1050
Early Medieval Europe 300–1050: A Guide for Studying and Teaching empowers students by providing them with the conceptual and methodological tools to investigate the period. Throughout the book, major research questions and historiographical debates are identified and guidance is given on how to engage with and evaluate key documentary sources as well as artistic and archaeological evidence. The book’s aim is to engender confidence in creative an…
Early Medieval Europe 300-1050
The making of peoples
Seats of Power in Europe During the Hundred Years War, by Anthony Emery
"Seats of Power in Europe During the Hundred Years War, by Anthony Emery." Archaeological Journal, 174(2), pp. 502–503
The Sainte-Chapelle and the Construction of Sacral Monarchy
This is a book as much about history as about art history, for it considers royal architecture ‘as forms of royal self-representation and institutional imagery’ (p. 197), and the Sainte-Chapelle in the Palais de la Cité at the heart of medieval Paris as a rich historical document for changes in the ideology of kingship achieved in the reign of Louis IX, king of France (1226–70). Meredith Cohen’s thesis is that the Sainte-Chapelle is rich evidence…
Britain’s Medieval Episcopal Thrones
Britain’s Medieval Episcopal Thrones: History, Archaeology and Conservation, by Charles Tracy, with Andrew Budge, and contributions by Hugh Harrison, Peter Ferguson, Paul Woodfield, Eddie Sinclair, Christopher Paterson, and John Allan." Archaeological Journal, 173(2), pp. 384–385
Un Palais Dans La Ville. Volume 1
The Islamic Villa in Early Medieval Iberia
The Islamic villas, which are the subject of this book, were the munyas, defined as ‘luxurious residences with spacious gardens’ (p. 2), which were a dominant feature of the landscape of Islamic Co
Charlemagne’s Palace
In the latter years of his reign, the king and emperor, Charlemagne (AD 768–814), made Aachen his permanent residence and it was the site for his most spectacular palace. With the break-up of his e
Wilfrid
This volume arises from two conferences held in 2009, respectively in Manchester under the direction of the editor, N.J. Higham, and in York under the direction of Richard Hall. The latter’s death led to Higham nobly undertaking to edit both sets of transactions together. The volume has been dedicated to Richard Hall’s memory; a bibliography of his writings and a fine photograph of him are poignant reminders of our premature loss. A new book on W…
Kingship and Consent in Anglo-Saxon England, 871–978
This book by Levi Roach deserves a warm welcome not only as the first monograph to be devoted to historical aspects of pre-Conquest English assemblies since T.J. Oleson’s The Witenagemot in the Reign of Edward the Confessor (1955; rev. ante, lcci [1956], 640–2), but also as the first extended treatment of the subject in any form since then. For, as the author points out in his perceptive and illuminating introduction, the whole question of assemb…
An Empire of Memory
The principal argument of Matthew Gabriele’s book is that the legend of Charlemagne, and especially the connotations of the Frankish identity on which his empire was based, prepared the ground for the First Crusade, when ‘the invocation of Frankish identity became a call to sanctified violence’ (p. 159). Gabriele traces the development of that ruler’s legend back to the ninth century, evident both in his gifts of Holy Land relics, and in the writ…
Court Ceremonies and the Rituals of Power in Byzantium and the Medieval Mediterranean
When approaching this book, a reader doubtful of the importance of studying ritual for understanding the political structure and workings of past societies is unlikely to be reassured by Alexander Beihammer’s designation of ‘modern ritual studies’ as a ‘young discipline’, or by his open-ended definition of this novel discipline’s scope as ‘all kinds of symbolic acts’, or by his definition of rituals as ‘essential modes of human expression, creati…
Newcastle and Northumberland
The Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna
Although Ravenna has not been a place of much political, social, or commercial importance since the mid-eighth century, the survival in whole or in part of a remarkable number of fifth- and sixth-century buildings, several with rich mosaic decoration, makes it one of the European cities most studied by specialists in Late Antiquity and the early middle ages. Its importance extends from the period when the last Roman emperors in the West made thei…
Forests, parks, palaces, and the power of place in early medieval kingship
Forests, parks and palaces were closely associated, so that palaces could not only have their own parks, but often occupied liminal positions between the forest and the more intensively cultivated land, or were surrounded by the forest. The power which forests and parks gave to palaces is here analysed in terms of categories of power derived from M ax W eber's work: bureaucratic, personal and ideological. The first involved the forest administrat…
Sustaining Belief
Parks in Medieval England, by Stephen A. Mileson
Much study has been devoted to English medieval parks in recent years, as is well represented by books such as The Medieval Park: New Perspectives, edited by Robert Liddiard (2007). The essays in that collection follow a variety of approaches, including those involving topography and landscape context of parks, ecology, and zooarchaeology, but they tend individually to be specialised, either in their methodological or their regional approach. Ste…
The Symbolic Language of Authority in the Carolingian World (c.751-877)
Journal Article The Symbolic Language of Authority in the Carolingian World (c.751–877) Get access The Symbolic Language of Authority in the Carolingian World (c.751–877), by Ildar H. Garipzanov (Leiden: Brill, 2008; pp. xx + 392. Eur 145). David Rollason David Rollason University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXV, Issue 512, February 2010, Pages 137–139, …
From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070
Journal Article From Pictland to Alba, 789–1070 Get access From Pictland to Alba, 789–1070, by Alex Woolf (Edinburgh: Edinburgh U.P., 2007; pp. xv + 384. £60; pb. £19.99). David Rollason David Rollason Durham University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXV, Issue 514, June 2010, Pages 670–671, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceq111 Published: 01 June 2010
Unpredictability and Presence
The strength of this book lies in the way that it locates Norwegian kingship in the context of broader European developments across the whole early and high middle ages, and of theoretical discussions about state formation and the nature of royal power. Its starting-point is the distinction between ‘absolute loyalty’ to the king and ‘contextual loyalty’ to him. By the former, Orning understands an absolute principle of loyalty founded on the king…
Le festin dans l'Angleterre anglo-saxonne (Ve-XIe siecle)
Le festin dans l'Angleterre anglo-saxonne (Ve-XIe siècle) Le festin dans l’Angleterre anglo-saxonne (Ve-XIe siècle), by Alban Gautier (Rennes: P.U. de Rennes, 2006; pp. 280. £21). David Rollason David Rollason Durham University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIII, Issue 503, August 2008, Pages 994–996, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cen185 Published: 01 August 2008
The Place of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England
This latest publication of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies contains papers from the second of three seminars held by the Sancta Crux/Halig Rod Project at Durham in 2001, Manchester in 2002, and Winchester in 2003. The project was an ambitious, interdisciplinary and sustained effort to understand the importance and role of the cross as idea, symbol and object in Anglo-Saxon England. The present volume is organised into three parts en…
Engaging with Historical Source Work
Although primary source work is a major component of undergraduate history degrees in many countries, the topic of how best to support this work has been relatively unexplored. This article addresses the pedagogical support of primary source work by reviewing relevant literature to identify the challenges undergraduates face in interpreting sources, and examining how in two courses carefully articulated course design and supportive teaching activ…
Les reliques. Objets, cultes, symboles
Depuis le Moyen Age, les reliques ont joué un rôle fondamental dans la vie religieuse, mais aussi économique et politique des sociétés chrétiennes tant occidentales qu'orientales. Pour autant, ce thème est resté jusqu'ici relativement négligé par l'historiographie. Le colloque qui a donné naissance à ce livre constitue une tentative originale pour interpréter le culte et la signification des reliques dans une approche d'anthropologie. Rassemblant…
Lists of saints' resting-places in Anglo-Saxon England
Secgan be þam Godes sanctum þe on Engla lande ærost reston is the title of a short document in Old English which is extant in two manuscripts, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 201, pp. 149–51, and London, British Library, Stowe 944, 34v–39r. These manuscripts are dated to the middle and the first half of the eleventh century respectively on the evidence of their script. A third copy was once in London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius D. xvii b…
Relic-cults as an instrument of royal policy c. 900–c. 1050
A considerable body of evidence shows that the kings of later Anglo-Saxon England concerned themselves very seriously with the cult of relics. No doubt this involvement arose in part from their piety; but as I hope to show there are grounds for thinking that it also derived from the importance of relics and relic-cults as instruments of royal policy, expressing and reinforcing the kings' power and position. I shall consider in turn three aspects …
Engaging with Historical Source Work
Although primary source work is a major component of undergraduate history degrees in many countries, the topic of how best to support this work has been relatively unexplored. This article addresses the pedagogical support of primary source work by reviewing relevant literature to identify the challenges undergraduates face in interpreting sources, and examining how in two courses carefully articulated course design and supportive teaching activ…
The Symbolic Language of Authority in the Carolingian World (c.751-877)
Journal Article The Symbolic Language of Authority in the Carolingian World (c.751–877) Get access The Symbolic Language of Authority in the Carolingian World (c.751–877), by Ildar H. Garipzanov (Leiden: Brill, 2008; pp. xx + 392. Eur 145). David Rollason David Rollason University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXV, Issue 512, February 2010, Pages 137–139, …
Nunneries and the Anglo-Saxon Royal Houses
THIS book, which forms part of the series ‘Women, Power and Politics’ (edited by June Hannam and Pauline Stafford), is notable for its clarity both of expression and of purpose, and for its freedom from the sort of feminist jargon which so marred, for example, Stephanie Hollis, Anglo-Saxon Women and the Church (Woodbridge, 1992). Yorke's principal aim is clearly enunciated at the outset: to explore ‘the interrelationship of nunneries with the roy…
The cults of murdered royal saints in Anglo-Saxon England
Murder by fellow Christians for secular motives may seem to us an improbable qualification for sanctity. To the Anglo-Saxons, however, the matter evidently appeared differently, for several members of pre-Conquest royal families seem to have been regarded as saints chiefly because of their violent ends at the hands of Christian assassins. The lives and cults of some of these murdered royal saints are well attested in pre-Conquest sources. Others,…
Lists of saints' resting-places in Anglo-Saxon England
Secgan be þam Godes sanctum þe on Engla lande ærost reston is the title of a short document in Old English which is extant in two manuscripts, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 201, pp. 149–51, and London, British Library, Stowe 944, 34v–39r. These manuscripts are dated to the middle and the first half of the eleventh century respectively on the evidence of their script. A third copy was once in London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius D. xvii b…
The cults of murdered royal saints in Anglo-Saxon England
Murder by fellow Christians for secular motives may seem to us an improbable qualification for sanctity. To the Anglo-Saxons, however, the matter evidently appeared differently, for several members of pre-Conquest royal families seem to have been regarded as saints chiefly because of their violent ends at the hands of Christian assassins. The lives and cults of some of these murdered royal saints are well attested in pre-Conquest sources. Others,…
The Mildrith Legend
Relic-cults as an instrument of royal policy c. 900–c. 1050
A considerable body of evidence shows that the kings of later Anglo-Saxon England concerned themselves very seriously with the cult of relics. No doubt this involvement arose in part from their piety; but as I hope to show there are grounds for thinking that it also derived from the importance of relics and relic-cults as instruments of royal policy, expressing and reinforcing the kings' power and position. I shall consider in turn three aspects …
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access DAVID ROLLASON DAVID ROLLASON University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIX, Issue 432, June 1994, Pages 680-b–681, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIX.432.680-b Published: 01 June 1994
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access DAVID ROLLASON DAVID ROLLASON University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIX, Issue 431, April 1994, Pages 402–403, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIX.431.402 Published: 01 April 1994
Debate
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access DAVID ROLLASON DAVID ROLLASON University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 438, September 1995, Pages 964-a–964, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.438.964-a Published: 01 September 1995
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access DAVID ROLLASON DAVID ROLLASON University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 436, April 1995, Page 437, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.436.437 Published: 01 April 1995
Les reliques. Objets, cultes, symboles
Depuis le Moyen Age, les reliques ont joué un rôle fondamental dans la vie religieuse, mais aussi économique et politique des sociétés chrétiennes tant occidentales qu'orientales. Pour autant, ce thème est resté jusqu'ici relativement négligé par l'historiographie. Le colloque qui a donné naissance à ce livre constitue une tentative originale pour interpréter le culte et la signification des reliques dans une approche d'anthropologie. Rassemblant…
Oxford Medieval Texts: Symeon of Durham: Libellus de Exordio atque Procursu Istius, hoc est Dunhelmensis, Ecclesie: Tract on the Origins and Progress of this the Church of Durham
"The church of Durham, founded in 995, claimed in the Middle Ages to be in origin the church of Lindisfarne or Holy Island, the members of which had fled in the face of Viking raids and had wandered for long across northern England, before re-establishing their church at Chester-le-Street in Co. Durham and then at Durham itself. The text edited and translated here for the first time for over a century is the most complete and detailed account of …
St Cuthbert and the Normans
Journal Article St Cuthbert and the Normans: The Church of Durham, 1071-1153 William M. Arid Get access David Rollason David Rollason University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 463, September 2000, Pages 929–930, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.463.929 Published: 01 September 2000
Le pelerinage a l'epoque carolingienne Bat-Sheva Albert
Journal Article Le pèlerinage à l'époque carolingienne Bat-Sheva Albert Get access David Rollason David Rollason University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 464, November 2000, Pages 1257–1258, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.464.1257 Published: 01 November 2000
The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, James Howard-Johnston and Paul Antony Hayward
Journal Article The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, James Howard-Johnston and Paul Antony Hayward Get access David Rollason David Rollason University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 466, April 2001, Page 448, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.466.448 Published: 01 April 2001
Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West
1University of Durham Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West Alan T. Thacker Richard Sharpe Oxford Oxford U.P. 2002 xiv + 581 £ 85
Engaging with Historical Source Work
Although primary source work is a major component of undergraduate history degrees in many countries, the topic of how best to support this work has been relatively unexplored. This article addresses the pedagogical support of primary source work by reviewing relevant literature to identify the challenges undergraduates face in interpreting sources, and examining how in two courses carefully articulated course design and supportive teaching activ…
Nunneries and the Anglo-Saxon Royal Houses
THIS book, which forms part of the series ‘Women, Power and Politics’ (edited by June Hannam and Pauline Stafford), is notable for its clarity both of expression and of purpose, and for its freedom from the sort of feminist jargon which so marred, for example, Stephanie Hollis, Anglo-Saxon Women and the Church (Woodbridge, 1992). Yorke's principal aim is clearly enunciated at the outset: to explore ‘the interrelationship of nunneries with the roy…
Le festin dans l'Angleterre anglo-saxonne (Ve-XIe siecle)
Le festin dans l'Angleterre anglo-saxonne (Ve-XIe siècle) Le festin dans l’Angleterre anglo-saxonne (Ve-XIe siècle), by Alban Gautier (Rennes: P.U. de Rennes, 2006; pp. 280. £21). David Rollason David Rollason Durham University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIII, Issue 503, August 2008, Pages 994–996, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cen185 Published: 01 August 2008
The Place of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England
This latest publication of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies contains papers from the second of three seminars held by the Sancta Crux/Halig Rod Project at Durham in 2001, Manchester in 2002, and Winchester in 2003. The project was an ambitious, interdisciplinary and sustained effort to understand the importance and role of the cross as idea, symbol and object in Anglo-Saxon England. The present volume is organised into three parts en…
Unpredictability and Presence
The strength of this book lies in the way that it locates Norwegian kingship in the context of broader European developments across the whole early and high middle ages, and of theoretical discussions about state formation and the nature of royal power. Its starting-point is the distinction between ‘absolute loyalty’ to the king and ‘contextual loyalty’ to him. By the former, Orning understands an absolute principle of loyalty founded on the king…
The Symbolic Language of Authority in the Carolingian World (c.751-877)
Journal Article The Symbolic Language of Authority in the Carolingian World (c.751–877) Get access The Symbolic Language of Authority in the Carolingian World (c.751–877), by Ildar H. Garipzanov (Leiden: Brill, 2008; pp. xx + 392. Eur 145). David Rollason David Rollason University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXV, Issue 512, February 2010, Pages 137–139, …
From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070
Journal Article From Pictland to Alba, 789–1070 Get access From Pictland to Alba, 789–1070, by Alex Woolf (Edinburgh: Edinburgh U.P., 2007; pp. xv + 384. £60; pb. £19.99). David Rollason David Rollason Durham University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXV, Issue 514, June 2010, Pages 670–671, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceq111 Published: 01 June 2010
Parks in Medieval England, by Stephen A. Mileson
Much study has been devoted to English medieval parks in recent years, as is well represented by books such as The Medieval Park: New Perspectives, edited by Robert Liddiard (2007). The essays in that collection follow a variety of approaches, including those involving topography and landscape context of parks, ecology, and zooarchaeology, but they tend individually to be specialised, either in their methodological or their regional approach. Ste…
Forests, parks, palaces, and the power of place in early medieval kingship
Forests, parks and palaces were closely associated, so that palaces could not only have their own parks, but often occupied liminal positions between the forest and the more intensively cultivated land, or were surrounded by the forest. The power which forests and parks gave to palaces is here analysed in terms of categories of power derived from M ax W eber's work: bureaucratic, personal and ideological. The first involved the forest administrat…
Sustaining Belief
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