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.
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.
€82.99
Зміст
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 Æthelwold 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.
Про автора
The authorBefore his death in 2004, Patrick Wormald was a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He was previously a Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, a Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Glasgow, and a Student of Christ Church, Oxford. He lectured widely in Europe, Scandinavia and North America and had an international reputation as an early-medieval scholar secured by many impressive and meticulously researched articles and by his most magisterial achievement, The Making of English Law.
The Editor
Stephen Baxter was one of Patrick Wormald’s students, and is a Lecturer in Medieval History at King’s College, London.
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