Table of Contents:
  • The influence of the past
  • Durham and the Norman world
  • Manuscript production at Durham in the early twelfth century
  • Pictorial narrative and the cult of St. Cuthbert : Oxford, University College, MS 165
  • The Benedictine revival in Northumbria
  • Power and cultural identity I : Durham and the anarchy
  • Power and cultural identity II : Durham and its books, c. 1120-c. 1160
  • The Augustinians and their libraries
  • The Cistercians and their libraries
  • Readers of Bede : the importance of Bede in the revival of Northumbrian monasticism
  • Aelred of Rievaulx.