Author: LAWRENCE-MATHERS, Anne.
Title: Manuscripts in Northumbria in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Description: Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2003. 23cm. x[ii], 303pp, suite of double-sided plates. Original maroon cloth gilt, printed paper label to front board. As new. Contents: The influence of the past -- Durham and the Norman world -- Manuscript production at Durham in the early twelfth century -- Pictorial narrative and the cult of St. Cuthbert : Oxford, University College, MS 165 -- The Benedictine revival in Northumbria -- Power and cultural identity I : Durham and the anarchy -- Power and cultural identity II : Durham and its books, c. 1120-c. 1160 -- The Augustinians and their libraries -- The Cistercians and their libraries -- Readers of Bede : the importance of Bede in the revival of Northumbrian monasticism -- Aelred of Rievaulx.

Keywords: Local History Northern England Manuscripts, Medieval England Northumbria (Region) Manuscripts, English (Old) England Northumbria (Region) Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) England Northumbria (Region) Books and reading England Northumbria (Re


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