How, When and Why did Bede Write his Ecclesiastical History?

ISBN-13: 9781032185651 / Miękka / 2023 / 302 str.

Richard Shaw

Opis

Bede’s Ecclesiastical History is our main source for early Christian Anglo-Saxon England, but how was it written? When? And why? Scholars have spent much of the last half century investigating the latter question – the ‘why’. This new study is the first to systematically consider the ‘how’ and the ‘when’.

Recenzje

‘The results [of Shaw’s research] are illuminating and thought-provoking … He has read very widely and thoroughly, and his book provides an excellent overview of the current state of play in the study of Bede’s most famous work’ – Barbara Yorke, Northern History.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. The process and logistics of collecting and analysing material for the HE  3. Bede, Canterbury, and the origins of the HE  4. The original context for the HE: Easter and ecclesiastical authority  5. The HE after 731  6. Post-731 Northumbria and the HE  7. Conclusion: the HE's shifting purposes in context

O autorze

Richard Shaw is Associate Professor and Chairman of the History Department at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College, in Ontario, Canada. His first book, The Gregorian Mission to Kent in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History: Methodology and Sources, was published by Routledge in 2018.