Manuscripts in Northumbria in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

The Catholic Historical Review | January 1, 2004| | Copyright

Manuscripts in Northumbria in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries. By Anne Lawrence-Mathers. (Rochester, New York: D. S. Brewer. 2003. Pp. xli, 308. $110.00;£60.)

This is a book of considerable ambition setting out to "study the development of monastic and intellectual culture" in Northumbria "through an analysis of [its] manuscripts, scriptoria and libraries" from the Norman Conquest to the death of Ailred of Rievaulx (1167). The method is to analyze the manuscripts, and then place the results "within the larger context of the social and political development" in the region. The relevant ...

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