 | Charles Forbes comte de Montalembert - 1867 - 508 sider
...rich, and industrious, which extends from Hull to Edinburgh. This was Lindisfarne — that is to say, the Mother Church, the religious capital of the north...daughter to the mother, is striking. These two isles, once so celebrated, so renowned, so influential over two great and hostile races, have the same sombre... | |
 | Charles Forbes comte de Montalembert - 1872 - 794 sider
...rich and industrious, which extends from Hull to Edinburgh. This was Lindisfarne — that is to say, the Mother Church, the religious capital of the north...— the lona of the Anglo-Saxons. The resemblance of Lisdisfarne to lona, of the colony to the metropolis, the daughter to the mother, is striking. These... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1878 - 480 sider
...now so populous, rich, and industrious, which extends from Hull to Edinburgh. This was Lindisfarne, the religious capital of the north of England and...whole country round — the lona of the Anglo-Saxons" (Monks of the West, iii., 20). The island, like that of Mont St. Michel in France, was only an island... | |
 | Ossory archaeological society - 1879 - 548 sider
...rich, and industrious, which extends from Hull to Edinburgh. This was Liudisfarne, that is to say, the Mother Church, the religious capital of the north...first sixteen bishops of Northumbria, the sanctuary aud monastic citadel of the whole country round, — the lona of the Anglo-Saxons. The resemblance... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - 1882 - 424 sider
...rich, and industrious, which extends from Hull to Edinburgh. This was Lindisfarne— that is to say, the Mother Church, the religious capital of the North of England and the South of Scotland, the residence of the first sixteen bishops of Northumbria, the sanctuary and... | |
 | Charles Forbes comte de Montalembert - 1896 - 488 sider
...rich, and industrious, which extends from Hull to Edinburgh. This was Lindisfarne — that is to say, the Mother Church, the religious capital of the north...daughter to the mother, is striking. These two isles, once so celebrated, so renowned, so influential over two great and hostile races, have the same sombre... | |
 | Denstone St. Chad's coll - 1877 - 332 sider
...quarters. Lindisfarne from this time became a centre of light and learning to all Northumbria. It became " the mother Church, the religious capital of the north...of Northumbria, the sanctuary and monastic citadel ot the whole country round — in short the lona of the Anglo Saxons. If we owe Canterbury to Ethelbert... | |
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Lindisfarne — that is to say, the Mother Church, the religious capital of the north of England and south of Scotland, the residence of the first sixteen bishops of Northumbria, the sanctuary and monastic citadel of the whole country round — the lona... 