Bede's Historiae
Subtitle: genre, rhetoric, and the construction of Anglo-Saxon church history
By: Vicky Gunn.
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781843834656
Subjects: Bede, -- the Venerable, Saint, -- 673-735; Bede, -- the Venerable, Saint, -- 673-735 -- Historiography; Christian saints -- England -- Historiography; Christian literature, English (Old) -- History and criticism; England -- Church history -- Historiography; England -- Church history -- Sources
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [226]-252) and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding Bede's audience; title: The historical and contemporary context of Northumbrian hagiography and Historiae production; title: Bede's agenda revisited : monastic superiority in the Ecclesiastical history; title: Bede's approach to the genre of Historia; title: A case of generic discomfort : Bede's History of the Abbots; title: A case of innovation within generic boundaries : Bede's Martyrology; title: Bede's compositional techniques in the genre of Ecclesiastical history.