OF all the English saints none figures more prominently in the history of the north of England than St Cuthbert. Reginald of Durham says that the three most pop

Very fine collection of essays a rich feast of scholarship with many discoveries and new interpretations of greatest value for Anglo-Saxon history.' SPECULUM St

This book surveys the textual representation of Cuthbert, the premier northern English saint, from the seventh to fifteenth centuries.

The first historical novel about Cuthbert, much-loved saint of the North, a one-time warrior whose destiny it was to reconcile the warring parties in the early