(Re-)reading Bede: the ecclesiastical history in context

Introduction -- (Re-) reading Bede : an author and his audience -- Bede's persona -- Reputation and commemoration -- Bede and his audience -- The ecclesiastical history : Bede's purposes and ours -- Contemporary issues : alternative agendas -- Bede and reform -- Bede and Wilfrid -- Bede�...

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Main Author: Higham, N. J. 1951- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: London New York, NY Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2006
In:Year: 2006
Edition:1. publ.
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Beda, Saint 672-735, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
Further subjects:B Church History Middle Ages, 600-1500
B England Church history 449-1066
B Bede 673-735
B Church History Middle Ages, 600-1500
B England Church history 449-1066
B Bede the Venerable, Saint (673-735) Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
B Civilization, Anglo-Saxon
B Bibliography
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Summary:Introduction -- (Re-) reading Bede : an author and his audience -- Bede's persona -- Reputation and commemoration -- Bede and his audience -- The ecclesiastical history : Bede's purposes and ours -- Contemporary issues : alternative agendas -- Bede and reform -- Bede and Wilfrid -- Bede's agenda : the preface -- The recapitulation -- Structure, organisation and context -- Structure -- Chapterisation -- Bede's chronicles and the ecclesiastical history -- Book III of the ecclesiastical history -- Bede on Irish and Scottish Christianity -- Message and discourse -- The divine, kingship and the church -- The immediate : the present in the Ecclesiastical history -- Book V : agenda and discourse -- From text to context : Beolwulf and the ecclesiastical history -- Editions and translations of the works of Bede
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0203307100