The Cambridge Companion to Bede

by Edited by Scott DeGregorio

• ISBN13: 9780521514958
• ISBN10: 0521514959
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

As the major writer and thinker of the Anglo-Saxon period, the Venerable Bede is a key figure in the study of the literature and thought of this time. This Companion, written by an international team of specialists, is a key introductory guide to Bede, his writings, and his world. The first part of the volume focuses on Bede's cultural and intellectual milieu, covering his life, the secular-political contexts of his day, the foundations of the Latin learning he inherited and sought to perpetuate, the ecclesiastical and monastic setting of early Northumbria, and the foundation of his home institution, Wearmouth-Jarrow. The book then considers Bede's writing in detail, treating his educational, exegetical and historical works. Concluding with a detailed assessment of Bede's influence and reception from the time of his death up to the modern age, the Companion enables the reader to view Bede's writings within a wider cultural context.

Table of Contents

Preface Scott DeGregorio

Chronological table

Bede's Life and Context

Bede's life in context

Secular and political contexts

The world of Latin learning

Church and monastery in Bede's Northumbria

British and Irish contexts

The foundation of Bede's Wearmouth-Jarrow

Bede's Writings

Bede and education

Bede and science

Bede and the Old Testament

Bede and the New Testament

Bede and preaching

Bede and history

Reception and Influence

The cult of Bede

Bede and the continent in the Carolingian Age and beyond

Bede and later Anglo-Saxon England

The Englishness of Bede, from then to now

Further reading

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