St Cuthbert his Cult and his Community to AD 1200 - Hardcover

Very fine collection of essays...a rich feast of scholarship with many discoveries and new interpretations of greatest value for Anglo-Saxon history. SPECULUM Une contribution de premier ordre a notre connaissance de la personne de Cuthbert, de son culte et de ses reliques. BULLETIN CODICOLOGIQUEThis authoritative and indispensable work will long remain of the utmost relevance to all those who study the history of Northumbria in this period. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEWExceptionally rich and varied... Registers the immense progress that has been made during the last fifty years in the study of early Anglo-Saxon history. JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY

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.