Manuscripts in Northumbria in the eleventh and twelfth centuries
By: Anne Lawrence-Mathers.
Publisher: D.S. Brewer
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K; Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: 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.; Northumbria (England : Region) -- History -- Sources.; Northumbria (England : Region) -- Church history -- Sources.; Northumbria (England : Region) -- Intellectual life -- Sources.
Genres: Sources.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-291) and index.
Table of contents: title: The influence of the past; title: Durham and the Norman world; title: Manuscript production at Durham in the early twelfth century; title: Pictorial narrative and the cult of St. Cuthbert : Oxford, University College, MS 165; title: The Benedictine revival in Northumbria; title: Power and cultural identity I : Durham and the anarchy; title: Power and cultural identity II : Durham and its books, c. 1120-c. 1160; title: The Augustinians and their libraries; title: The Cistercians and their libraries; title: Readers of Bede : the importance of Bede in the revival of Northumbrian monasticism; title: Aelred of Rievaulx.