Wormald / Baxter Times of Bede

Studies in Early English Christian Society and its Historian
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-69265-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten, E-Book

Written by the late Patrick Wormald, one of the leading authoritieson Bede's life and work over a 30-year period, this book is acollection of studies on Bede and early English Christian society.
* A collection of studies on Bede, the greatest historian of theEnglish Middle Ages, and the early English church.
* Integrates the religious, intellectual, political and socialhistory of the English in their first Christian centuries.
* Looks at how Bede and other writers charted the establishmentof a Christian community within a warrior society.
* Features the first map of all known or likely early Christiancommunities in England.
* Includes plans and illustrations of the finest early Christianchurch in England at Brixworth.
* An appendix considers Bede's treatment of St. Hilda, thefirst great English female saint.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wormald, Patrick

Baxter, Stephen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 SaxonAristocracy.
3 Bede, the Bretwaldas and the origins of the GensAnglorum.
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 ofBrixworth.
Appendix: Hilda, Saint and Scholar (614-680).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Before his death in 2004, Patrick Wormald was a Fellow ofWolfson College, Oxford. He was previously a Fellow of All Souls,Oxford, a Lecturer in Medieval History at the University ofGlasgow, and a Student of Christ Church, Oxford. He lectured widelyin Europe, Scandinavia and North America and had an internationalreputation as an early-medieval scholar secured by many impressiveand meticulously researched articles and by his most magisterialachievement, The Making of English Law.
The Editor
Stephen Baxter was one of Patrick Wormald's students, and is aLecturer in Medieval History at King's College, London.