Reading (2)

(NB: not the same Benedict to be mentioned
later)
“on his repeated journeys to Rome and Gaul
he brought back to England a wealth of
manuscripts, paintings, relics and vestments, as
well as masons and glaziers and singers for the
adornment and service of the Church.”
“Hence it was in Northumbria that Anglo-Saxon
culture, and perhaps the whole culture of
Western monasticism in the Dark Ages,
achieved their climax at the beginning of the
eighth century. (Dawson, p.65-66)
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