296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
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Bede's Ecclesiastical History is the most important single source for early medieval English history. Without it, we would be able to say very little about the conversion of the English to Christianity, or the nature of England before the Viking Age.
Bede wrote for his contemporaries, not for a later audience, and it is only by an examination of the work itself that we can assess how best to... Read more
1. (Re-) Reading Bede: An Author and his Audience 2. The Ecclesiastical History: Bede’s Purposes and Ours 3. Structure, Organisation and Context 4. Message and Discourse 5. From Text to Context: Ceolwulf and the Ecclesiastical History. Editions and Translations of the Works of Bede
Biography
N.J. Higham is Professor of Early Medieval and Landscape History at the University of Manchester. His publications include King Arthur: Myth-Making and History (Routledge, 2002) and the edited collection Edward the Elder (Routledge, 2001).
'Professor Higham is admirable in stressing how far, how intensely, Bede's inner world differed from that of modern readers...This is a reflective work, infused by a vigorous spirit of curious inquiry. Many students of Bede will turn to it, quite often.' – James Campbell, Worcester College, Oxford
