Place of Repose: St Cuthbert’s Last Journey Format:E-book Stephen Platten is to be

Stephen Platten is to be thanked for broadening the debate on the place of cathedrals in contemporary British life

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Michael Chandler is an historian and author of several books on the Church of England in the nineteenth century

This close but accessible study asks readers to think about darkness in ways that have been seldom explored

Place of Repose: St Cuthbert’s Last Journey Format:E-book Stephen Platten is to beThe year is AD 875, and the Danish King of York, Halfden Ragnarsson, is carrying fire and sword across Northumbria, burning churches and monasteries and killing their inhabitants. The monks of Lindisfarne have to flee, taking with them the Lindisfarne Gospels and Saint Cuthbert's relics. For seven years they journey seeking to find a new home for the saint, a journey that changes the lives of those who bear him for ever. Place of Repose is a tale of