Understanding the Church’s Past: Usuard’s Martyrology in Tenth-and Eleventh-century England
Sarah Hamilton
The ninth century witnessed the compilation of martyrologies in both Latin Frankish world Carolingians and vernacular Anglo-Saxon Wessex. Yet this phenomenon has been treated very differently by modern scholars these two cultures. For Carolingianists represent a public, shared text, one which was read aloud chapter as part daily life religious communities across kingdoms, which, Rosamond McKitterick suggested, should be viewed contributing to those communitiesâ understanding their Christian past. recent scholars, text known Old English Martyrology is rather work compiled support private, devotional reading, better understood an encyclopaedia arcane information. This article investigates reception tenth- eleventh-century England, that Usuard, compares it Martyrology. It asks how far texts fact historical texts. concludes with case study they were late community, Exeter, suggests at least, able maintain overlapping but different views its past place wider Church history.
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