Libraries preserve the knowledge and ideas on which rights depend; no wonder they are so
often attacked. Richard Ovenden tells the history of this deliberate destruction of knowledge …

This book examines the contribution of archaeology to the study of the social, economic,
religious, and other developments in England from the end of the Roman period at the start …

THE# 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 CUNDIL HISTORY
PRIZE A" Next Big Idea Book Club" Must Read? A groundbreaking reappraisal of medieval …

Awarded the Irish Historical Research Prize 2021. The Venerable Bede (c. 673–735) was
the leading intellectual figure of the early Anglo-Saxon Church, and his extensive corpus of …

Cover Illustration: Christ as Wisdom with Dunstan at his feet. The verse reads 'I pray thee,
Christ, protect me Dunstan'. Both the text and drawing, which are from 'St Dunstan's …

Design and Spirituality examines the philosophical context of our current situation and its
implications for design. It explores how modernity and our constricted notions of progress …

The corpus of runic inscriptions from Anglo-Saxon England is growing steadily, and the
evidence of several recent finds sheds valuable new light on the range and role of literacy in …

Determining what the psalter illustrations of medieval Ethiopia—especially the David and
Solomon portraits in the Juel-Jensen Psalter—have in common with other traditions helps to …

The Ruthwell Cross is one of the finest Anglo-Saxon high crosses that have come down to
us. The longest epigraphic text in the Old English Runes Corpus is inscribed on two sides of …

The scholarship and teaching of manuscript studies has been transformed by digitisation,
rendering previously rarefied documents accessible for study on a vast scale. The …