Routes of North African Impact on Book Production in the British Isles before ca. 800
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21420935 |
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| Authors | Alison Hudson (0000-0002-4278-2536, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 83-101 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Viator (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0083-5897 • E-ISSN: 2031-0234 |
| Publisher | Brepols Publishers NV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1484/j.viator.5.127038 |
| OpenAlex | W4206568058 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
Generations of scholars have noted the links between North African art and manuscripts and Insular book cultures. However, until recently, most manuscript scholars have been cautious when considering how Egyptian and Carthaginian exemplars reached the British Isles. Even in the case of a surviving North African manuscript known to have been owned in an Insular context, scholars have tended to assume that Abbot Hadrian the African brought it with him to Canterbury. Such a limited view of North African-Insular interactions has been challenged in the past few decades by a number of archeological excavations. These have expanded our knowledge of exchanges of goods between North Africa and the post-Roman British Isles. Drawing together recent work in manuscript and material culture, I argue that there were a number of routes by which a Carthaginian manuscript-and indeed, other Carthaginian and Egyptian influences-could have reached Insular contexts
Ancient history · Archaeology · Context (archaeology) · Ethnology · Excavation · Geography · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Medieval Literature and History
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