The times of Bede : studies in early English Christian society and its historian
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The times of Bede : studies in early English Christian society and its historian
Blackwell Pub., 2006
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Written by the late Patrick Wormald, one of the leading authorities on Bede's life and work over a 30-year period, this book is a collection of studies on Bede and early English Christian society.
A collection of studies on Bede, the greatest historian of the English Middle Ages, and the early English church.
Integrates the religious, intellectual, political and social history of the English in their first Christian centuries.
Looks at how Bede and other writers charted the establishment of a Christian community within a warrior society.
Features the first map of all known or likely early Christian communities in England.
Includes plans and illustrations of the finest early Christian church in England at Brixworth.
An appendix considers Bede's treatment of St. Hilda, the first great English female saint.
Table of Contents
Foreword. Editorial Note by Stephen Baxter.
Acknowledgements.
Abbreviations.
Part I An Early Christian Culture and its Critic.
1 Bede and Benedict Biscop.
2 Bede, Beowulf and the Conversion of the Anglo Saxon Aristocracy.
3 Bede, the Bretwaldas and the origins of the Gens Anglorum.
4 Bede and the conversion of England: the charter evidence.
Part II The Impact of Bede's Critique.
5 AEthelwold and his Continental Counterparts: Contact, Comparison, Contrast.
6 Bede and the 'Church of the English'.
7 How do we know so much about Anglo Saxon Deerhurst?
8 Aristocrats as Abbots: a context for the making of Brixworth.
Appendix: Hilda, Saint and Scholar (614-680).
Index.
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