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This chapter revisits the scholarly consensus that the Old English poem Durham is both formally and politically nostalgic by reading it as a political gambit in the power struggles between the monks of Durham Cathedral against the neighboring castle and its powerful bishops in post-Conquest Durham.
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Calvin Kendall, “Now Let Us Praise a Famous City: Wordplay in the OE Durham and the Cult of St. Cuthbert,” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 87 (1988), 507–21, 511.
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Blurton, H. (2008). Reliquia: Writing Relics in Anglo-Norman Durham. In: Cohen, J.J. (eds) Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230614123_3
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