The Old English Durham and the Cult of Cuthbert

The Old English Durham is a short poem in praise of the final resting place of Saint Cuthbert, the great seventh-century Anglo-Saxon hermit saint. The present essay argues that the poem asserts the primacy of Durham as cult centre, over the previous centres of Lindisfarne and Chester-le-Street, by d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Appleton, H
Format: Journal article
Published: University of Illinois Press 2015