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Rollason, David, et al., Edd. (2004), Durham Liber Vitae and its Context, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer.

The Durham Liber Vitae originated in the mid-ninth century as a list of several thousand names of persons associated with a Northumbrian church, probably Lindisfarne, but possibly Monkwearmouth/Jarrow. From around 1100, it was used to record the names of all Durham monks, as well as of many lay people, some great, others utterly obscure. Family groups also appear, especially the families of the last monks before Henry VIII dissolved the cathedral monastery in 1539.

This volume offers the first study on this scale of all aspects of the Liber Vitae. It will be an indispensable introduction to it, and will be of interest to a wide range of medieval specialists.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

List of plates

List of figures

Abbreviations

Introduction

PART ONE: THE MANUSCRIPT OF THE DURHAM LIBER VITAE

The Durham Liber Vitae and Sir Robert Cotton COLIN G. C. TITE London

The Make-Up of the Liber Vitae : The Codicology of the Manuscript MICHAEL GULLICK Red Gull Press

PART TWO: THE HISTORY AND CONTENT OF THE DURHAM LIBER VITAE

The Origins of the Durham Liber Vitae JAN GERCHOW Ruhrlandmuseum Essen

Nothing but Names: The Original Core of the Durham Liber Vitae ELIZABETH BRIGGS

The Scandinavian Personal Names in the later part of the Durham Liber Vitae JOHN INSLEY Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg

Anglo-Norman Names Recorded in the Durham Liber Vitae JOHN S. MOORE University of Bristol

Scots in the Durham Liber Vitae GEOFFREY BARROW Edinburgh

The Names of the Durham Monks A. J. PIPER University of Durham

The Late Medieval Non-Monastic Entries in the Durham Liber Vitae LYNDA ROLLASON University of Durham

PART THREE: THE DURHAM LIBER VITAE IN CONTEXT

A Survey of the Early Medieval Confraternity Books from the Continent DIETER GEUENICH Mercator-Universität, Duisburg

The Liber Vitae of the New Minster, Winchester SIMON KEYNES University of Cambridge

Testimonies of the Living Dead: The Martyrology-Necrology and the Necrology in the Chapter Book of Mont-Saint-Michel (Avranches, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 214) K. S. B. KEATS-ROHAN Linacre College, Oxford

The Necrology of the Codex Gigas of Bohemia (Kungliga Biblioteket Stockholm MS A 148) IVAN HLAVÁCEK Charles University, Prague

How Was a Confraternity Made? The Evidence of Charters ARNOLD ANGENENDT Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster

Commemoration and Memorialization in a Yorkshire Context JANET BURTON University of Wales, Lampeter

Books of Brotherhood: Registering Fraternity and Confraternity in Late Medieval England R. N. SWANSON University of Birmingham

Index