Northumbria
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Northumbria was an early medieval English kingdom, existing between 654 and 1066 AD, spanning modern-day Northern England and Southern Scotland.
Page from the Lindisfarne Gospels, c. 700, featuring zoomorphic knot-work.
The Book of Kells, (folio 292r), c. 800, showing the lavishly decorated text that opens the Gospel of John
Sword pommel from the Bedale Hoard, inlaid with gold foil.
Gosforth Cross, view from the north-west
Synod of Whitby
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The Synod of Whitby was a Christian administrative gathering held in Northumbria in 664, wherein King Oswiu ruled that his kingdom would calculate Easter and observe the monastic tonsure according to
A manuscript of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.
Ruins of Whitby Abbey, rebuilt in the thirteenth century