Lindisfarne

Langara College The Lindisfarne Gospels; An Insular Identity Connor Budd Western Art: Prehistory to Renaissance (AHIS 1114) Denise Panchysyn November 17th, 2016 Beginning with the conversion of the Irish Celts around the fifth century, Christianity began to spread across the British Isles. Around 630, an envoy of monks was sent from a monastery on the Scottish Isle of Iona to a small Northumbrian island (only about 4 square kilometers at high tide) situated in the North Sea of the

produced using ash. Situated on a wooden seat in the scriptorium of Lindisfarne, an island off the shore of Northumberland in England, he gazes hard at the words from a composition made in Italy. This book is his model, a bound book, produced using sheets of paper or material, the codex, from which he is to duplicate the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. For about the following six years, he will duplicate this Latin. The Lindisfarne Gospels, a standout amongst the greatest compositions of the early

In order to examine the Viking period, one need to know how the vikings became vikings and that they were ancient Scandinavian people who lived from late 8th century to early 11th century. Vikings originated from what is now modern day Denmark, Norway and Sweden. They were warriors,fighters, inventors, merchants, that had a huge impact on the European history. They settled in many parts of Europe, and even as far as Asia. When people hear the word “viking” they usually think about massive, violent

away with the treasures not caring for what they have done, not double thinking if they should’ve killed the wives and children. A monk wrote what happened, during the battle in fear, ‘On the seventh of the 13th of June, they reached the church of Lindisfarne, and there they miserably ravaged and pillaged everything; they trampled the holy things under their polluted feet, they dug down the platforms, and plundered all the treasures of the church. Some of the comrades they killed, some

Langara College The Lindisfarne Gospels; XXXXXXXXXXXXX Connor Budd Western Art: Prehistory to Renaissance (AHIS 1114) Denise Panchysyn November 17th, 2016 Beginning with the conversion of the Irish Celts around the fifth century, Christianity began to spread across the British Isles. Around 630, an envoy of monks was sent from a monastery on the Scottish Isle of Iona to a small Northumbrian island (only about 4 square kilometers at high tide) situated in the North

derives from the Celtic word ‘creig’ meaning crag or rock. There has been a settlement here since at least AD 685, when Ecgfrith, King of Northumbria gave Crayke, together with all the land within a three-mile radius, to St Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne. Shortly afterwards, St Cuthbert established a monastery, adjacent to the site of the present castle, which survived until Danish marauders destroyed it towards the end of the ninth century.

with an unusual haircut. "Where are we? I was never told," he had asked one afternoon, placing down his quill and frowning. The boy had looked up at him and smiled uneasily, fidgeting with the silver cross he noticed everyone carried. "We are in Lindisfarne. You are to learn about our one and only God. The true God" he had replied. Athelstan had watched him for a moment before lunging across the table, wrapping his hands around the boys skinny neck. "You worship a fake God. Our Gods are the only

on June 8th c.793 the Vikings made their first raid on Britain, coming ashore to Northumbria and sacking Lindisfarne, a sacred Christian site. During the 8th century, Lindisfarne was inhabited by monks who were responsible for the creation of the Lindisfarne gospels, in conjunction with this, the monastery was home to many religious artefacts, bestowed by noblemen as a gift to God. Lindisfarne is particularly significant as it was the only bishopric in Northumbria for a period of 30 years, gaining

The "Vikings" were an ancient people that inhabited Northern Europe and Scandinavia known as the Norse (also known as Northmen or Norsemen). The Norse people were spread across Northern Europe, particularly in the regions known today as: Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, and Finland), Germany, Denmark, Poland, Netherlands, the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Ireland, and the surrounding islands), Iceland, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. These northern people as a whole spoke as their native

Female to Male as Nature is to Culture Gender relations form an integral part of human social interactions and are of great interest to anthropologists. Since the feminist movement in the late 1960s, one question that has been discussed is to what extent the opposition between women and men can be thought of in terms of the dichotomy between nature and culture and what implications this has for the position of women in society. This structuralist perspective was first