Beda Venerabilis
Subtitle: historian, monk & Northumbrian
By: edited by L.A.J.R. Houwen and A.A. MacDonald.
Contributors: Houwen, L. A. J. R.; MacDonald, A. A.
Series: Mediaevalia Groningana ;; v. 19; Mediaevalia Groningana ;; fasc. 19.
Publisher: E. Forsten
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Groningen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- England -- History and criticism.; Monasticism and religious orders -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.; Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500.; Anglo-Saxons -- Intellectual life.; Civilization, Anglo-Saxon.; Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.; Great Britain -- History -- To 1066 -- Historiography.; Northumbria (Kingdom) -- Civilization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Eight essays, five of which originated in a one-day conference on Bede held in 1990 at the University of Groningen.
Table of contents: title: On Bede as Christian historian / Jan Davidse; title: Bede's influence at home and abroad : an introduction / J.E. Cross; title: Bede and the Irish / A.T. Thacker; title: Bede and Frechulf at medieval St. Gallen / Michael Idomir Allen; title: Beda Hagiographicus : meaning and function of miracle stories in the Vita Cuthberti and the Historia ecclesiastica / Karl Lutterkort; title: Bede and Aelfric : the sources of the Homily on St Cuthbert / B.A. Blokhuis; title: A Northumbrian version of 'Caedmon's Hymn' (eordu-recension) in Brussels, Bibliothèque royale MS 8245-57 ff. 62r²-v¹ : identification, edition, and filiation / Dan O'Donnell; title: Bede and the legends of St Oswald / A.M. Jansen.