Those crafty medieval monks — forging their way through history!

Geoff Ward
Jul 24, 2017 · 5 min read

A new book claims that England’s Gospels of St Augustine and Ireland’s Book of Kells, among other famous medieval manuscripts, are fakes

Turning the diverting pages of M J Harper’s Meetings with Remarkable Forgeries (Urquhart Press, £12.95, June 2017) is a meeting with a remarkable book.

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Geoff Ward

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Writer, poet, tutor and mentor in literature and creative writing (MA and BA Hons degrees in English literature), editor, journalist and musician.

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