Understanding Bede's audience -- The historical and contemporary context of Northumbrian hagiography and historiae production -- Bede's agenda revisited : monastic superiority in the Ecclesiastical history -- Bede's approach to the genre of historia -- A case of generic discomfort : Bede's History of the abbots -- A case of innovation within generic boundaries : Bede's Martyrology -- Bede's compositional techniques in the genre of ecclesiastical history
Summary
He church history of the Anglo-Saxons can only be approached through the lens of a few writers, arguably the greatest of whom is Bede; his works illuminate an otherwise impoverished landscape of ecclesial development from conversion to established Christi
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-252) and index
