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St Oswald of Worcester ife and Influence, ed. Nicholas Brooks and Catherine Cubitt, Studies in the Early History of Britain: The Makers of England z (London and New York: Leicester University Press, 1996). xvii + 365 pp.; 12 plates; 22 figures. ISBN o-7185-oo;-2. 49.95.
St Oswald, bishop of Worcester from 96I until 992 and archbishop of York from 972, was the youngest of the great triumvirate of late Anglo-Saxon monastic reformers, and thus the last to be commemorated in our own time with a millennial conference. He should not be disappointed, for in this case last is certainly not least. The conference, held at Worcester in i992 under the auspices of the Cathedral and the University of Birmingham, was a tremendous success, warmly remembered by many who attended, not least the present reviewer; while the proceedings,...