St. Cuthbert, his cult and his community to AD 1200
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St. Cuthbert, his cult and his community to AD 1200
The Boydell Press, 1989
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A rich feast of scholarship with many discoveries and new interpretations of great value for Anglo-Saxon history. SPECULUM Cuthbert, saintly bishop of Holy Island in the seventh century, was also a figure of great political and territorial power, in his life and even more so after his death. Several early Lives of him were written, two by Bede himself, and his tomb attracted sumptuous treasures. The community founded by Cuthbert revered him as perpetual guardian and landowner, and he was credited with making one king and inspiring the loyalty of others, not least of Alfred. The studies in this book, ranging over the saint's life, Lindisfarne and its manuscripts, the treasures of the coffin, and the Community and the cult, vividly convey Cuthbert's great influence, and his significance in the early history of England.
Table of Contents
Elements in the background to the life of St Cuthbert and his early cult - James Campbell
Cuthbert and the polarity between pastor and solitary - Clare Stancliffe
Early irish hermitages in the light of the lives of Cuthbert - Michael Herity
The spirituality of St Cuthbert - Benedicta Ward
Bede's metrical vita S. Cuthberti - Michael Lapidge
Second prose life of St Cuthbert? - Victor Tunkel, Selden Society
Opus deliberatum ac perfectum: Why did the venerable Bede write a second prose life of St Cuthbert? - Walter Berschin
Lindisfarne and the origins of the cult of St Cuthbert - Alan T Thacker
The plan of the early christian monastery on Lindisfarne: a fresh look at the evidence - Deirdre O'Sullivan
The gospel texts at Lindisfarne at the time of St Cuthbert - Christopher Verey
The Linisfarne scriptorium from the late seventh to the early ninth century - Michelle Brown
Birds, beasts and initials in Lindisfarne's gospel books - Janet Backhouse
The Durham-Echternach calligrapher - Rupert Bruce-Mitford
Is the Augsburg gospel codex a Northumbrian manuscript? - D O Croinin
Willibrord's Scriptorium at Echternach and its relationship to Ireland and Lindisfarne - Nancy Netzer
The artistic influence of Lindisfarne within Northumbria - Rosemary Cramp
St Cuthbert's relics: some neglected evidence - Richard Bailey
The anglo-saxon coffin: further investigations - Janey Cronyn
Roman and runic on St Cuthbert's coffin - R I Page
The iconography of St Peter in anglo-saxon england, and St Cuthbert's coffin - John Higgitt
The pectoral cross and portable altar from the tomb of St Cuthbert - Elizabeth Coatsworth
The weft-patterned silks of their braid: the remains of an anglo-saxon dalmatic of c.800? - Hero Granger-Taylor
Some new thoughts on the nature goddess silk - Clare Higgins
The inscription on the nature goddess silk - Hero Granger-Taylor
Silks and saints: the rider and peacock silks from the relics of St Cuthbert - Anna Muthesius
Why did the community of St Cuthbert settle at Chester-le-street? - Eric Cambridge
St Cuthbert at Chester-le-street - Gerald Bonner
The king Alfred/St Cuthbert episode in the Historia de sancto Cuthberto: Its significance for mid-tenth-century english history - Luisella Simpson
St Cuthbert and Wessex: the evidence of Cambridge, Corpus Christi college MS 183 - David W Rollason
The sanctury of St Cuthbert - D J Hall
The first generations of Durham monks and the cult of St Cuthbert - Alan J Piper
The cult of St Cuthbert in the twelfth century: the evidence of Reginald of Durham - Victoria Tudor
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