Item Number: 149648 Title: Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms Author: Breay, Claire ; Joanna Story Price: Not Available ISBN: 9780712352024 Description: London: British Library, 2018. 28cm., hardcover, 272pp. illus. Exhibition catalogue. Summary: At the heart of the book is the, including Beowulf and other poetry; the Lindisfarne Gospels, one of Britain’s greatest artistic and religious treasures; the St Cuthbert Gospel, the earliest intact European book; and historical manuscripts such as Bede’s Ecclesiastical History and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. These national treasures are discussed alongside other, internationally important literary and historical manuscripts held in major collections in Britain and Europe.This book, and the exhibition it accompanies, chart a fascinating and dynamic period in early medieval history, and will bring to life our understanding of these formative centuries.
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