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Article: Episcopal Culture in Late Anglo-Saxon England.(Book review)
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- September 1, 2008
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doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001200
Episcopal Culture in Late Anglo-Saxon England. By Mary Frances Giandrea. Anglo-Saxon Studies 7. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell, 2007. xvi + 249 pp. $85.00 cloth.
What do we know about the life and work of a typical Anglo-Saxon bishop in the century and a half before the Norman invasion? Not much, according to Mary Frances Giandrea. In telling us this, she is telling early medieval historians nothing new. But she relates what we do know, and why we don't know what we don't know, in a prose style more engaging than what one might expect from a book whose opening pages offer so many caveats.
Giandrea aims to "present as ...