(Re-)reading Bede
Subtitle: the ecclesiastical history in context
By: N.J. Higham.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780415353670; 9780415353687
Subjects: Bede, -- the Venerable, Saint, -- 673-735; Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; Civilization, Anglo-Saxon; England -- Church history -- 449-1066
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: (Re-) reading Bede : an author and his audience; title: Bede's persona; title: Reputation and commemoration; title: Bede and his audience; title: The ecclesiastical history : Bede's purposes and ours; title: Contemporary issues : alternative agendas; title: Bede and reform; title: Bede and Wilfrid; title: Bede's agenda : the preface; title: The recapitulation; title: Structure, organisation and context; title: Structure; title: Chapterisation; title: Bede's chronicles and the ecclesiastical history; title: Book III of the ecclesiastical history; title: Bede on Irish and Scottish Christianity; title: Message and discourse; title: The divine, kingship and the church; title: The immediate : the present in the Ecclesiastical history; title: Book V : agenda and discourse; title: From text to context : Beolwulf and the ecclesiastical history; title: Editions and translations of the works of Bede.