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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.
Acknowledgements
Preface
List of plates
List of figures
Abbreviations
Introduction
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
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
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