(Re-)reading Bede: the ecclesiastical history in context
N.J. Higham
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Title and Author
(Re-)reading Bede: the ecclesiastical history in context / N.J. HighamPublication Details
لندن : Routledge، 2006مPhysical Description
viii, 279 p.: map.; 24 cm.Subject
Bede,673-735.Historia ecclesiastica gentis AnglorumChurch history - Middle Ages, 600-1500
Civilization, Anglo-Saxon
England Church history - 449-1066.
Language
انگلیسیIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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