ALASTAIR MINNIS and JANE ROBERTS (eds). Text, Image, Interpretation: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature and its Insular Context in Honour of Eamonn O Carragain.

Stodnick, Jacqueline

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“…4 The word is applied to signify literal as well as metaphorical stability. There are compound nouns that include both staþol and terms for mind: modstaþol, modstaþolness, and modstaþolfaestness, all of which appear in the corpus of Old English literature (Stanley, 2007). Following (un)staþolfaestness as a central concept within a variety of descriptions of minds shows the frequency of the search for stability, and the implication that instability of mind is a typical feature that is present in Old English literature.…”

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(Un)staþolfæstnes and its Problems: Grounding Minds in Early Medieval England

Veldhuizen

2023

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The Old English text Solomon and Saturn includes a list of materials from which Adam, the first man, is made. A pound of cloud constitutes his modes unstaðelfæstnes [mind’s unsteadfastness / instability]. Various other texts from early medieval England also refer to the mod, or mind, as an intrinsically unstable and changeable entity, using key terms such as staðelfæst [grounded / stable] and staðolian [to ground / stabilise]. In many of these texts, this instability is mentioned as an inherent quality of mind. Instability, contingency and change are regarded as integral and typical features of the mind but equally, there are warnings for the waywardness of the mind. The literature frequently encourages readers to ground and maintain control over their minds. Sources recommend restraining and training the mind to ‘govern’ and ‘steer’ it, and they even refer to the possibility of finding mental stability in another foundation. This article considers these seemingly contradictory portrayals of minds and instructions for grounding them, and delivers a more nuanced conception of what (physical) freedom early medieval people would imagine their minds to have, and what foundations they considered helpful for grounding them.

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“…In the context of the selected texts in this paper, mod is simply translated with 'mind'. SeeStanley (2007) for examples of staþol across the corpus of Old English.…”

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(Un)staþolfæstnes and its Problems: Grounding Minds in Early Medieval England

Veldhuizen

2023

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“…Furthermore, this was certainly not the only illuminated manuscript to emanate from its scriptorium. 10 Webster has led the way, too, in proposing that the house-shaped whalebone box, known as the Gandersheim Casket, is also likely to have been manufactured at Medeshamstede, where it may have served a liturgical function, perhaps as a reliquary or a container for the host or chrism. 11 By common consent, then, pre-Viking Medeshamstede was a large and rich foundation, active in all the decorative and literary arts.…”

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Guthlac at Medeshamstede?

Everson

Stocker

2023

Early Medieval Europe

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This paper proposes that the early monastery at Medeshamstede (later Peterborough) was the sponsor and supporter of the hermit saint, Guthlac, on the fenland island of Crowland. It locates that initiative in the early Benedictine practice in England. It is argued that Medeshamstede subsequently sustained the saint’s pre‐Viking cult, and is the best candidate for the location where Felix produced the saint’s Life. The potential impact of this proposition on received understandings of the relationships between the monasteries of Medeshamstede and Ely and the kingdoms of Mercia and East Anglia – played out through the local polity of the Gyrwe – is noted. Early stone sculpture at Fletton is interrogated as potential evidence for the cult of Guthlac at Medeshamstede but found wanting.

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ALASTAIR MINNIS and JANE ROBERTS (eds). Text, Image, Interpretation: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature and its Insular Context in Honour of Eamonn O Carragain.

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(Un)staþolfæstnes and its Problems: Grounding Minds in Early Medieval England

(Un)staþolfæstnes and its Problems: Grounding Minds in Early Medieval England

Guthlac at Medeshamstede?

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