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Encyclopedia > James the Deacon

James the Deacon was an Italian deacon who accompanied Paulinus of York on his mission to Northumbria to the court of King Edwin of Deira in 625 with Edwin's bride Æthelburh, sister of King Eadbald of Kent. Deacon is a role in the Christian Church which is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions. ... Saint Paulinus, (?-October 10, 644), was the first bishop of York. ... Section from Shepherds map of the British Isles about 802 AD showing the kingdom of Northumbria Northumbria is primarily the name of a petty kingdom of Angles which was formed in Great Britain at the beginning of the 7th century, and of the much smaller earldom which succeeded the... Edwin (alternately Eadwine or Æduini) ( 584–October 12, 632/633) was the King of Northumbria from about 616 until his death. ... Eadbald (died January 20, 640) was the King of Kent from 616 until his death. ...


After the death of Edwin in battle at Hatfield against Penda of Mercia and Caedwalla in 632, Paulinus fled to Kent, leaving James, "the one heroic figure in the Roman mission,[1]" in Northumbria. Bede writes that James lived in a village near Catterick, which "bears his name to this day". He reports that James undertook missionary work in the area and lived to a great age.[2] It has been suggested that James may have been the source of Bede's account of Edwin's life.[3] The Battle of Hatfield Chase was fought in Anglo-Saxon England between the Northumbrians under Edwin and the allied Welsh of Gwynedd under Cadwallon ap Cadfan and Mercians under Penda. ... Stained glass window from the cloister of Worcester Cathedral showing the death of Penda of Mercia. ... Cadwallon ap Cadfan (c. ... Catterick could be Catterick, a village in North Yorkshire, England. ...


James was present at the Synod of Whitby in Bede's account of events there.[4] Bede tells us that after this, and the return of Roman customs, James, as a trained singing master in the Roman and Kentish style, trained many people.[5] The Synod of Whitby was an important synod which eventually led to the unification of the church in Britain. ...


It has been suggested that James was Bede's informant for the life of Edwin, the works of Paulinus, and perhaps for the Synod of Whitby, which would place his death some time after the birth of Bede.[6] Bede depicted in an early medieval manuscript Depiction of Bede from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493. ... The Synod of Whitby was an important synod which eventually led to the unification of the church in Britain. ...


Notes

  1. ^ Stenton, p. 116
  2. ^ Bede, II, xx.
  3. ^ Higham, p. 107.
  4. ^ Bede, III, xxv. Eddi's Life of Wilfred, x, does not mention James.
  5. ^ Bede, II, xx and IV, ii.
  6. ^ Higham, p. 107; Lapdige.

References

  • Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, tr. Leo Sherley-Price, rev. R.E. Latham, ed. D.H. Farmer. Penguin, London, 1990. ISBN 0-14-044565-X
  • Higham, N.J., The Kingdom of Northumbria AD 350-1100. Stroud: Sutton, 1993. ISBN 0-86299-730-5
  • Lapidge, Michael, "James the Deacon" in M. Lapidge et al (eds), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Blackwell, London, 1999. ISBN 0-631-22492-0
  • Stenton, Sir Frank, Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1971 (3rd edn) ISBN 0-19-280139-2

Bede depicted in an early medieval manuscript Depiction of Bede from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493. ... Sir Frank Merry Stenton (1880–September 15, 1967) was a noted 20th century historian of Anglo-Saxon England. ...

External links

  • Bede's Ecclesiastical History and its Continuation (pdf), at CCEL, translated by A.M. Sellar, Latin edition at the Latin Library.

 

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