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Manuscripts in Northumbria in the eleventh and twelfth centuries / Anne Lawrence-Mathers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lawrence-Mathers, Anne, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scriptoria.
- History.
- Monastic libraries.
- Monasticism and religious orders.
- Books and reading.
- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern).
- Manuscripts, English (Old).
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- Northumbria (England : Region)--History--Sources.
- Northumbria (England : Region).
- Northumbria (England : Region)--Church history--Sources.
- Northumbria (England : Region)--Intellectual life--Sources.
- Manuscripts, Medieval--England--Northumbria (Region).
- Manuscripts, English (Old)--England--Northumbria (Region).
- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--England--Northumbria (Region).
- Books and reading--England--Northumbria (Region)--History--To 1500--Sources.
- Monasticism and religious orders--England--Northumbria (Region)--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Sources.
- Monastic libraries--England--Northumbria (Region)--History--To 1500--Sources.
- Scriptoria--England--Northumbria (Region)--History--Sources.
- England--Northumbria (Region).
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- x, 303 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2003.
- Summary:
- Manuscript evidence is used to trace the processes of the establishment of a new order in Northumbria following the Norman conquest.
- 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
- Conclusion : history and regional identity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [274]-291) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0859917657
- OCLC:
- 50643678
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