The Book of Cerne: Prayer, Patronage and Power in Ninth-Century England
Anne Lawrence|Michelle Brown
The Book of Cerne (Cambridge University library, MSLLL10) reveals a complex interplay text, script, and image. It offers fascinating insight into Insular culture is the only surviving illuminated manuscript that can be firmly attributed to powerful Anglo-Saxon kingdom Mercia. At time its production, around 820-840, princes prelates were vying for power Vikings knocking, less than politely, at door. prayerbook (meditating upon themes salvation communion saints) made patron whose cultural tastes embraced Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Carolingian, Roman, Byzantine materials. This volume represents first comprehensive study places it within broader context book production prayer life world.
Yearbook of English studies