"Among the first works of art produced after Iconoclasm was defeated in 843, three Byzantine Marginal Psalters that have survived provide a rare glimpse into the world of scholarship and religious and political debate that occupied some of the leading intellectuals in Constantin…
The first comprehensive analysis of the use of the psalms in Anglo-Saxon England, this book particularly addresses the manuscripts and texts in which the psalms appeared, and the use of those manuscripts and texts in Anglo-Saxon England and later. The psalms are at the heart of …
"The Psalter, with its 150 psalms, is the longest book of the Bible. For the Anglo-Saxons it was also the preeminent work of the Old Testament. It had several claims on them: as a wisdom book composed in poetry; as the basic classroom text used to teach clerical students how to …