When the Roman Empire fell to the barbarians in A.D. 476, much of western civilization's accumulated knowledge began to disappear. Scrolls and manuscripts were lost when the monasteries and libraries that contained them were abandoned....

Lindisfarne (grid reference NU125421, 55°40′40″N, 1°47′42″W), (variant spelling, Lindesfarne), is a tidal island off the north-east coast of England. It is sometimes known as Holy Island, but several different islands around the British...

The first time most Americans heard about the British folk-rock group Lindisfarne - and probably the last time as well - it was for a rather ungracious note on Rod Stewart's 1971 album "Every Picture Tells a Story." Crediting the classic track...

Brown, Michelle P. Painted labyrinth: the world of the Lindisfarne gospels. London: British Library, 2003.48p 5.95 [pounds sterling] soft ISBN0712348115 THE LINDISFARNE GOSPELS, PRODUCED MORE THAN 1300 YEARS AGO AT THE MONASTERY of Lindisfarne on the Northumbrian coast, remains one of the...

The most striking photograph included in All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860, an exhibition on display in the Robert Lehman Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is neither the best thing in the British photographer’s oeuvre nor the most beautiful....