![]() The manuscript is one of the finest works in the unique style of Hiberno-Saxon or Insular art, combining Mediterranean, Anglo-Saxon and Celtic elements. The Lindisfarne Gospels (London, British Library Cotton MS Nero D.IV) is an illuminated manuscript gospel book produced around the year 700 in a monastery off the coast of Northumberland at Lindisfarne and which is now on display in the British Library in London. I could not have written a better work of what I would call 'faction', that is, factually based fiction. Brown, writes: A well-researched account of what we can retrieve, through scholarship, of the making of one of the world's great cultural landmarks and its age - and a sensitive evocation of what we cannot know. Leading academic expert on the subject, Professor Michelle P. This is an imagining of his life, his loves, his work, and his world, by an author who, in her academic alias, is well-versed in researching and sharing her passion for the transformative, scintillating ‘not so Dark Ages’. ![]() In an age of battle-hardened Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, and British warriors, all vying for power after the Roman Empire’s collapse, a hero unsung by bards took up his pen and entered the desert of the book to change the world. ![]() This is the tale of the making of a masterwork, a landmark in the human journey - the Lindisfarne Gospels, one of the world’s most beautiful and intriguing illuminated manuscripts. ![]()
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