Ebook: The Lindisfarne Gospels: New Perspectives

The exhibition, 'Lindisfarne Gospels Durham: one amazing book, one incredible journey', held at Palace Green Library, Durham, from July to September 2013 and visited by well over 100,000 people, presented the nature, history and evolving significance of the Lindisfarne Gospels from its origin on Holy Island c. 700, through its sojourn at Chesterle-Street from the late ninth to the late tenth centuries, to its arrival at Durham in 995. Complementing the exhibition, a series of distinguished speakers presented new research on the manuscript, its contexts and comparanda. Those lectures, duly revised, form the present book.

Twelve expert contributions examine the text, art, and Old English gloss of this masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon book culture in relation to its archaeological, historical, cultural, and art-historical contexts, Insular and Continental.