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The Community of St. Cuthbert in the Late Tenth Century: The Chester-Le-Street Additions to Durham Cathedral Library A.IV.19

The Community of St. Cuthbert in the Late Tenth Century: The Chester-Le-Street Additions to Durham Cathedral Library A.IV.19

Jolly, Karen Louise

Paperback

Series: Text and Context

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary CriticismGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0814256503
ISBN13: 9780814256503
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: Oct 9 2020
Pages: 438
Weight: 1.47
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The Community of St. Cuthbert in the Late Tenth Century: The Chester-le-Street Additions to Durham Cathedral Library A.IV.19 reveals the dynamic role a seemingly marginalized community played during a defining period for the emergence of English religious identity. Based on her new critical edition of additions made to Durham Cathedral Library A.IV.19 and by questioning the purpose of those late tenth-century additions, Karen Louise Jolly is able to uncover much about the Chester-le-Street scribes and their tumultuous time, rife as it was with various political tensions, from Vikings and local Northumbrian nobles to an increasingly dominant West Saxon monarchy.

Why, for instance, would a priest laboriously insert an Old English gloss above every Latin word in a collection of prayers intended to be performed in Latin? What motivated the same English scribe to include Irish-derived Christian materials in the manuscript, including prayers invoking the archangel Panchiel to clear birds from a field?

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