Two Lives of St. Cuthbert Melocco In the early 1990s

In the early 1990s

including objects and human remains

It was first published in 1890

Nicolaes (Claes Pieterszoon) Tulp (Amsterdam

and achingly beautiful

Two Lives of St. Cuthbert Melocco In the early 1990sThese two complementary lives of Cuthbert illuminate both the secular history of the golden age of Northumbria and the historic shift from Celtic to Roman ecclesiastical practice which took place after the Synod of Whitby. Cuthbert was very much in the Irish monastic tradition. He adopted Roman usages, becoming prior and eventually bishop of Lindisfarne, but the essential nature of his commitment changed little and he lived for much of his later life