The Church in the 10th and early 11th centuries

Burhs and the Church

• Sites for collegiate churches with schools

• Continue Alfred’s policy of lay education

• Educate the ‘heathen’ in newly conquered territory

• Ideological unity

Monasteries ‘Refound’ and ‘Reform’

• Found or refound

• Recover from destruction

• Provide services in new area

• Endowments

– Religious causes

– Secular causes

Monasteries ‘Refound’ and ‘Reform’

Reform

• Rule of St. Benedict

• Dunstan, Aethelwold, Oswald

• 970 Regularis Concordia

Monasteries - Influence

• From 959 to 1016

Almost all bishops come from monasteries

St. Laurence’s Church, Bradford on Avon

Tympanum, Church of St. Mary, Stottesdon, Shropshire

Greensted Church, Essex, ~1053