Beyond the Book of Kells: A Twelfth-Century Bede from Bury

Recorded January 16, 2018. This lecture is part of a series
entitled "Beyond the Book of Kells: The stories of eight other
medieval manuscripts from the library of Trinity College Dublin."
In this talk Dr Mark Faulkner from Trinity's School of English,
will discuss TCD MS 492: A Twelfth-Century Bede from Bury. MS 492
typifies the large, imposing copies of major Latin works with which
monasteries filled their libraries after the Norman conquest of
England in 1066. Its texts – Bede's eighth-century Ecclesiastical
History of the English People and an eleventh-century treatise on
the resting places of English saints – were central to the Norman
invaders' interactions with the religious history of their new
territory, providing nothing less than holy geography of England.
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