Professor Dame Rosemary Cramp was an exceptionally energetic and charismatic scholar, who reviewed all the surviving examples of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture, undertook large-scale archaeological excavations, greatly enlarged the Department of Archaeology at Durham University, and was a prominent figure in heritage governance in a working life of over seventy years. Drawing on both material remains and the extant Anglo-Saxon literature, she created a glittering new vision of Early Christian England.
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