The writing room Aidan’s monks established, a scriptorium, paved the way for the creation of the Lindisfarne Gospels a generation later, but its production is linked to another famous event in ...

In The Medieval Scriptorium, Charles ... nuns or priests such as Bishop Eadfrith of Lindisfarne, who made the famous 8th-century Gospels. The rise of the universities and a literate courtly ...

Lindisfarne, also known as Holy Island, was one of the first landing sites of the Vikings. Monasteries were places where monks lived and worshipped. Most people respected the monks and gave them ...

British archaeologists have announced the discovery of a rare board game piece, believed to date back to one of the first Viking raids on the island of Lindisfarne. The island and its monastery ...

The gospels date back to Anglo-Saxon times and remain in almost perfect condition The 1,300-year-old Lindisfarne Gospels have returned to north-east England for the first time in almost a decade.