Product Description: The research programme that followed the major `Viking Dig' at 16-22 Coppergate, York, is virtually complete and published in previous volumes of The Archaeology of York series. The ten chapters in this book, each written by a specialist, place the Coppergate discoveries within the wider context of Viking Yorvik whilst demonstrating `how far the study of Anglo-Scandinavian York has progressed in the last quarter century' since the `Viking Dig'...read more

Product Description: The Durham Liber Vitae (London, British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A. vii) is one of seven surviving libri memoriales from the Carolingian period, and the only English example of its date. The book, which has been notably little studied, contains several thousand names of persons associated with a Northumbrian church, probably Lindisfarne, but possibly Monkwearmouth/Jarrow...read more

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Product Description: On lives of the saint, Lindisfarne and its scriptorium, and the treasures of Cuthbert's coffin. A collection of essays, of value for Anglo-Saxon history.

Product Description: From the 11th century to the end of the 12th, Durham was home of the wealthy and influential church of St Cuthbert, a fortified peninsula in the confrontation between English and Scots, the site of one of the most spectacular Romanesque cathedrals in Europe, and a centre producing texts and manuscripts which had a wide influence in northern England...read more

Product Description: The veneration of saints and relics is one of the most striking features of Anglo-Saxon society. A vast literature, produced by some of the foremost writers of the age such as Bede, developed to record the lives and miracles of saints...read more