Antonia Gransden sees some continuity of the Anglo - Saxon monastic tradition from its origin in seventh - century Northumbria .
Antonia Gransden argues that historians have exaggerated both the importance of the tenth - century reform and its debt to continental models .
Antonia Gransden sees some continuity of the Anglo - Saxon monastic tradition from its origin in seventh - century Northumbria , and argues that historians have exaggerated both the importance of the tenth - century reform and its debt to continental models .