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Absence as Evidence: Recovering the Losses in an Eighth-century Gospel Book

Posted on 11 August 2017 by Special Collections

Guest post by Dr Eleanor Jackson

Manuscripts

‘A thing useful against evils’ – An Anglo-Saxon gospel book from Northumbria

Posted on 24 July 2013 by Suzanne Paul

For early medieval Christian communities, a gospel book was a treasured possession and, according to an Anglo-Saxon riddle, ‘a thing useful against evils’. The most […]

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