Product Description: Northumbria was, during the 7th and 8th centuries, the most significant of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. It was among the most important Christian centres in Europe, having several great monasteries, most famously at Lindisfarne and Wearmouth-Jarrow...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book presents a highly illustrated art-historical assessment of a group of 9th-century Anglo-Saxon stone carvings at Sandbach in Cheshire. As such, it represents one of the first modern studies devoted to a specific group of Anglo-Saxon high crosses, as well as a new, iconographic, approach to that material...read more