The points of difference between the Roman and Celtic Churches were very trivial, the chief being the date for the celebration of Easter and the shape of the monastic tonsure.
See note 2 on page [97].
This very decorative class of ornament not only survived till the thirteenth century but was again revived in Italy at the close of the fifteenth century; see below, page [193].
It is mentioned above, see page [62], how Alcuin of York in the reign of Charles the Great created the Anglo-Carolingian style of illumination by introducing in the eighth century into the kingdom of the Franks manuscripts and manuscript illuminators from the monasteries of Northumbria.
Canon G. F. Browne tells me that it is very doubtful whether Wilfrid ever received the pall from Rome. It may therefore be more correct to speak of him as Bishop rather than Archbishop of York.