The Venerable Bede (c. 673-735) was the leading intellectual figure of the early Anglo-Saxon Church, whose extensive corpus of writings encompassed themes of exegesis, computus (dating of Easter and construction of calendars), history and hagiography. Rather than look at these works in isolation, MAirA-n Mac Carron argues that Bede's work in different genres needs to be read together in order to be properly understood. As such, this book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Bede's thought on time, through a close study of computus, theology and history. It demonstrates that a...