(Re-)reading Bede : the ecclesiastical history in context

N.J. Higham
London ; New York : Routledge, 2006
viii, 279 p. ; 24 cm
Book
LocationCall NumberStatus
G/F CollectionBR 746 .H54Available

  • (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
  • ill., maps
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-272) and index
  • Routledge
  • 0415353688 (pbk)
  • text
  • volume
  • unmediated
  • https://cms.trccloud.hk/opac/bib/ALfe