ANGLO

At the heart of the book is the British Library's outstanding collection of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, the richest source of evidence about Old English language and literature, including Beowulf and other poetry/ the Lindisfarne Gospels, one of Britain's greatest ar tistic and religious treasures/ the St Cuthbert Gospel, the earliest intact European book/ and historical manuscripts such as Bede's Ecclesiastical History and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. These national treasures are discussed alongside other, internationally impor tant lite...[Read more]