All Outputs (12)

The Theology of the Afterlife in the Early Middle Ages, c.400-c.1100 (2020)
Book Chapter
Foxhall Forbes, H. (2020). The Theology of the Afterlife in the Early Middle Ages, c.400-c.1100. In R. Pollard (Ed.), Imagining the medieval afterlife (153-175). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316823255.013

Between AD c.400 and AD c.1100, Christian ideas about the afterlife changed in subtle but important ways. This chapter outlines broad trends in thought about the afterlife in this period in the Latin West, and examines the concomitant changes in thin... Read More about The Theology of the Afterlife in the Early Middle Ages, c.400-c.1100.

The Twentieth Century Invention of Ancient Mountains: The Archaeology of Highland Aspromonte (2020)
Journal Article
Robb, J., Chesson, M. S., Forbes, H., Foxhall, L., Foxhall-Forbes, H., Lazrus, P. K., …Yoon, D. (2021). The Twentieth Century Invention of Ancient Mountains: The Archaeology of Highland Aspromonte. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 25(1), 14-44. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-020-00543-x

The high mountains of the Mediterranean are often considered as refuges of ancient traditions, particularly of pastoralism and brigandage. Is this image true? This paper reports the first systematic archaeological research on Aspromonte, Southern Cal... Read More about The Twentieth Century Invention of Ancient Mountains: The Archaeology of Highland Aspromonte.

Making books for pastoral care in late eleventh-century Worcester: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 121 and Hatton 113 + 114 (2019)
Book Chapter
Foxhall Forbes, H. (2019). Making books for pastoral care in late eleventh-century Worcester: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 121 and Hatton 113 + 114. In P. Clarke, & S. James (Eds.), Pastoral care in medieval England : interdisciplinary approaches (29-66). Routledge

Writing on the wall: Anglo-Saxons at Monte Sant’Angelo sul Gargano (Puglia) and the spiritual and social significance of graffiti (2019)
Journal Article
Foxhall Forbes, H. (2019). Writing on the wall: Anglo-Saxons at Monte Sant’Angelo sul Gargano (Puglia) and the spiritual and social significance of graffiti. Journal of Late Antiquity, 12(1), 169-210. https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2019.0007

Among the early medieval names inscribed on the walls at the shrine of S. Michele at Monte Sant’Angelo sul Gargano are a small number from Anglo-Saxon visitors, all but one written in runic script. This article employs those names as a lens through w... Read More about Writing on the wall: Anglo-Saxons at Monte Sant’Angelo sul Gargano (Puglia) and the spiritual and social significance of graffiti.

Apocalypse, Eschatology and the Interim in England and Byzantium in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries (2018)
Book Chapter
Foxhall Forbes, H. (2018). Apocalypse, Eschatology and the Interim in England and Byzantium in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries. In M. Gabriele, & J. T. Palmer (Eds.), Apocalypse and reform from late antiquity to the Middle Ages (139-166). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429488948-8

Making Manifest God's Judgement: Interpreting Ordeals in Late Anglo-Saxon England (2017)
Book Chapter
Foxhall Forbes, H. (2017). Making Manifest God's Judgement: Interpreting Ordeals in Late Anglo-Saxon England. In R. Naismith, & D. Woodman (Eds.), Writing, Kingship and Power in Anglo-Saxon England (259-280). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316676066.012

Searching for Conversion in the Early English Laws (2017)
Book Chapter
Foxhall Forbes, H. (2017). Searching for Conversion in the Early English Laws. In N. Edwards, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, & R. Flechner (Eds.), Transforming landscapes of belief in the early Medieval insular world and beyond : converting the isles II (145-174). Brepols Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1484/m.celama-eb.5.113589

O domine libera anima meam! Visualizing Purgatory in Anglo-Saxon England (2016)
Book Chapter
Foxhall Forbes, H. (2016). O domine libera anima meam! Visualizing Purgatory in Anglo-Saxon England. In J. Niles, S. S. Klein, & J. Wilcox (Eds.), The Anglo-Saxons and the visual imagination. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Affective piety and the practice of penance in late-eleventh-century Worcester: the address to the penitent in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 121 (2015)
Journal Article
Foxhall Forbes, H. (2015). Affective piety and the practice of penance in late-eleventh-century Worcester: the address to the penitent in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 121. Anglo-Saxon England, 44, 309-345. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0263675100080169

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 121, a manuscript written in Worcester in the early years of the episcopate of St Wulfstan (1062–95), contains a unique, untitled, anonymous text which has previously been interpreted as a Lenten homily. This article... Read More about Affective piety and the practice of penance in late-eleventh-century Worcester: the address to the penitent in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 121.

Heaven and earth in Anglo-Saxon England: theology and society in an age of faith (2013)
Book
Foxhall Forbes, H. (2013). Heaven and earth in Anglo-Saxon England: theology and society in an age of faith. Ashgate Publishing

Christian theology and religious belief were crucially important to Anglo-Saxon society, and are manifest in the surviving textual, visual and material evidence. This is the first full-length study investigating how Christian theology and religious b... Read More about Heaven and earth in Anglo-Saxon England: theology and society in an age of faith.

'Squabbling siblings: gender and monastic life in late Anglo-Saxon Winchester'. (2011)
Journal Article
Foxhall Forbes, H. (2011). Anglo-Saxon Winchester'. Gender and History, 23(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0424.2011.01656.x

“Diuiduntur in quattuor”: the Interim and Judgement in Anglo-Saxon England (2010)
Journal Article
Foxhall Forbes, H. (2010). “Diuiduntur in quattuor”: the Interim and Judgement in Anglo-Saxon England. The Journal of Theological Studies, 61(2), 659-684. https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flq092

The division of souls in the afterlife into groups of three or four can be found in the works of many patristic and medieval authors, drawing on a number of traditions about the fate of the soul in the interim and at judgement. These groupings have o... Read More about “Diuiduntur in quattuor”: the Interim and Judgement in Anglo-Saxon England.