'All that Peter Stands For': The Romanitas of the Codex Amiatinus Reconsidered

In O'Reilly Jennifer (ed.), Anglo-Saxon/Irish Relations before the Vikings. pp. 367-395 (2009)
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This chapter examines the romanitas of the Codex Amiatinus. It suggests that the choice of uncial script in Northumbria in the 660s and 670s was a political act and that the association of uncial script with Rome and the papal mission acted as a challenge to insular liturgical gospel-book traditions in Northumbria. The chapter analyses the romanitas of Wearmouth-Jarrow, assuming that Bishop Wilfrid's romanitas aimed to demonstrate to the Northumbrians the superiority of Rome over Iona and of St. Peter over Columba.

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