IMAGE 01 Paul's route to Italy, c. A.D. 60. Source: Oxford Annotated Bible (RSV).
IMAGE 02 The Mediterranean World, A.D. 550: "the cradle of monasticism" in the valleys of the Nile and Jordan. Source: Knowles, Christian Monasticism, p. 23.
IMAGE 03 Irish Monasteries on the Continent, showing St. Gall (St. Gallen), Reichenau, Lorsch, and others. Source: Brooke, figure 1, p. 10.
IMAGE 04 The route taken by Augustine and Theodore to Canterbury at the end of the sixth century.
IMAGE 05 Map of England showing important monastic centers in the North, including Lindisfarne, Ripon, and Monkwearmouth-Jarrow. Source: Hill, plate 202, p. 120.
IMAGE 06 Initials from Citeaux, France, early twelfth century, from a manuscript of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job. Source: Brooke, p. 28, figure 29 (grain).
IMAGE 07 Initials from a twelfth-century manuscript of Bede's Life of St. Cuthbert, early twelfth century (British Library Add, MS 39943). Note that an angel is helping the monk lower the stone into place. Source: Brooke, p. 63, fig. 94 (building) and 95 (digging).
IMAGE 08 Initials from a twelfth-century manuscript of Bede's Life of St. Cuthbert, early twelfth century (British Library Add, MS 39943). The monk's lack of urgency seems comical. Source: Brooke, p. 63, fig. 92 and 93.
IMAGE09 Map of England showing Wimbourne and Tauberbischofsheim on the Continent.
IMAGE10 Pope Gregory the Great writing in a monastic scriptorium. Note the dove on his shoulder.
IMAGE 11 The Ruthwell Cross, which contains a runic inscription with lines from The Dream of the Rood (which is set in a monastery)
IMAGE 12 Detail from the Ruthwell Cross: Christ trampling the beasts.
IMAGE 13 St. Cuthbert's Pectoral Cross. Once buried with the saint in his tomb, the cross illustrates the riches possessed by monasteries in the "Gold Age of Northumbria" and remarkable craftsmanship of the artisans in the North.
IMAGE 14 Carpet Page from the Lindisfarne Gospels. These decorative pages were among the works of art accomplished by monks in the north of England. Their form is inspired by Irish design.
