Durham Liber Vitae - Volume 2: Volume 2 - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0712349960 ISBN 13 : 9780712349963

Editeur : British Library, 2007

Synopsis

The Durham Liber Vitae, a sumptuous manuscript created in ninth-century Northumbria containing lists of 3,000 names of royalty, aristocracy, and churchmen, is one of only three books of its type to survive from medieval Britain. Updated sporadically in the tenth and eleventh centuries, it became a repository for the names of monks at Durham Cathedral Priory up until the Dissolution, and later included the names of lay persons through the Middle Ages—some from the royalty and aristocracy, but many from much humbler levels of society. Durham Liber Vitae: The Complete Edition brings the Liber Vitae to life, unlocking its considerable potential for a range of studies in linguistics, religious history, and paleaeography. Supported by a high-resolution digital facsimile on CD-ROM, introductions to the manuscript, extensive indexes, and full linguistic commentaries on absolutely all recorded names, Durham Liber Vitae: The Complete Edition is an essential volume for scholars of medieval English history.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Rollason is professor of history at the University of Durham. Lynda Rollason specializes in the Durham Liber Vitae and completed a dissertation on the manuscript in 2003.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: British Library
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0712349960
• ISBN 13: 9780712349963
• Reliure: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Nombre de pages: 2000
• Éditeur: Rollason David, Rollason Lynda
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible