![]() ![]() For anyone wishing to travel imaginatively to Holy Island and to explore its spiritual and social environs, this is an extraordinary read. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. ![]() The imagined love story which forms part of the book's "factional" superstructure is perhaps its least convincing element, but it allows the author to digress into a richly informed discussion of contemporary female monasticism. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Eadfrith: Scribe of Lindisfarne by Treeve, Michelle (2014) Paperback at. This little volume (less than 150 pages) is deceptively dense it is brimful of immense learning- stretching from Northumbria, Ireland, and Scotland, to Europe, the Holy Land, and North Africa- about everything from political and ecclesial intrigues to the intricacies of preparing vellum and creating the exquisite pigments that adorn each page of the celebrated Lindisfarne Gospels. Eadfrith: Scribe of Lindisfarne is an imaginary (or "factional") biography of the scribe/bishop, about whom almost nothing is known, embedded with rich detail about monastic culture and about the painstakingly copied and lavishly illustrated gospel books which are its treasured legacy. No one knows more about Lindisfarne or its remarkable Gospels than the scholarly alter-ego of Michelle Treeve, who rather whimsically provides the blurb on the back of this unusual book. ![]()
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