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Writing History in the Community of St Cuthbert, C.700-1130: From Bede to Symeon of Durham

by Charles C. Rozier
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781903153949
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: York Medieval Press
  • Publisher Imprint: York Medieval Press
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  • Pages: 253
  • Original Price: GBP 85.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 536 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Europe / Medieval

Historical texts of all kinds were written in the community of St Cuthbert c.700-1130, from short annals to extended narrative history, political tracts and works on the lives and miracles of saints.At the same time, scribes in the community worked to copy and procure notable classics of historiography, from Classical Antiquity down to the Norman Conquest of England. But what did these various forms of writing about past events mean to their original authors and readers? What were these texts for?
This book offers a narrative of historiographical production within St Cuthbert's community from the time of its foundation on the island of Lindisfarne, through subsequent translations to Chester-le-Street and Durham, down to the vibrant intellectual revival of the Anglo-Norman period. Focusing on several watershed moments in the story of this community, it identifies political, religious, intellectual and cultural triggers for historical writing, and argues that knowledge of past events gave successive guardians of Cuthbert's cult their single most valuable tool in the continuous effort to define who they were, where they had come from, and what they hoped to continue to be.

CHARLES C. ROZIER is Lecturer in Medieval European History at Durham University.

Rozier, Charles C.: - CHARLES C. ROZIER is Lecturer in Medieval Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

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