Symeon of Durham: Libellus de Exordio Atque Procursu Istius Hoc Est Dunhelmensis Ecclesie: Tract on the Origins and Progress of This the Church of Dur (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198202073)

The church of Durham, founded in 995, claimed in the Middle Ages to be in origin the church of Lindisfarne or Holy Island, the members of which had fled in the face of Viking raids and had wandered for long across northern England before re-establishing their church. This book is a newly edited and translated version of the most complete and detailed account of the history of this church. Important as a piece of early post-Conquest historiography by an author about whom much is now known, the text is fascinating for the details it gives about the ecclesiastical community of Durham, the miracles which its members believed had occurred, and the relationship between the church and the lands and secular inhabitants of northern England.

Author: David Rollason
ISBN-10: 0198202075
ISBN-13: 9780198202073
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Language: English
Published: 06/22/2000
Pages: 452
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.59lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.13d