An illuminated Psalter that provides evidence for intellectual, religious, and literary activity at the courts of Edward the Elder, Æthelstan, and possibly Alfred the Great. The manuscript originated on the Continent, but was imported to England and supplemented with religious texts, computistica, and poetry. Its numerous prayers give it an important place among Carolingian and Anglo‐Saxon prayerbooks.
Syllogaeare manuscript collections of epigraphic poems (tituli) transcribed by pilgrims to important Christian sites, particularly in Rome. Anglo‐Saxons participated in compiling and transmittingsyllogaefrom the seventh century on. They imitated and innovated the genres they found insyllogaeto authorize their own practices and identities. From early on, the inscriptional verse of thesyllogaewas supplemented by other kinds of epigram.
For more than two centuries, the tidal Island of Lindisfarne housed one of Anglo‐Saxon England's most influential communities. Extant artistic and literary products associated with this community, especially with the cult of St. Cuthbert, demonstrate its continued influence and importance, even after the community was forced to leave the island due to Viking attacks.
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