Research Catalog

Title

(Re-)reading Bede : the ecclesiastical history in context / N.J. Higham.

Author

Higham, N. J.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Supplementary Content

Publisher description

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Details

Description

viii, 279 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Subject

• Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
• Church history > Middle Ages, 600-1500
• Civilization, Anglo-Saxon
• England > Church history > 449-1066

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-272) and index.

Contents

(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 -- Text to context : Bede, Ceolwulf and the ecclesiastical history -- From text to context -- Towards conclusions.

ISBN

• 041535367X (hbk)
• 0415353688 (pbk)
• 0203307100 (ebk)

LCCN

• 2006006584
• 9780415353670
• 9780415353687

OCLC

• ocm64510352
• SCSB-1403132

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library