Bede and the end of time
By: Peter Darby
Series: Studies in early medieval Britain
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781409430483; 9781409430490
Subjects: History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chronology and the world ages in De temporibus; title: The Epistola ad pleguinam and its contemporary setting; title: The expanded world ages scheme; title: Signs, portents and the end-time sequence; title: The day of judgement and the eternal afterlife; title: Bede's eschatological perspective and Gregory the Great; title: Bede's eschatological perspective in the Crisis of 716; title: Bede's eschatological perspective: the wider context.