(Re-)Reading Bede

Zusatztext 'Professor Higham is admirable in stressing how far! how intensely! Bede's inner world differed from that of modern readers...This is a reflective work! infused by a vigorous spirit of curious inquiry. Many students of Bede will turn to it! quite often.' - James Campbell! Worcester College! Oxford Informationen zum Autor N.J. Higham is Professor of Early Medieval and Landscape History at the University of Manchester. His publications include King Arthur: Myth-Making and History (Routledge, 2002) and the edited collection Edward the Elder (Routledge, 2001). Klappentext Bede's Ecclesiastical History is the main source for early medieval English history; without it there would be little to say about English history in the period. In "Re-Reading Bede, " N.J. Hingham offers a fresh reading of Bede's history, looking at its internal construction, its political, social and cultural values and what light it throws on the history of the period, especially in the heroes it presents and the conversion of England to Christianity. Zusammenfassung Through a close reading of Bede, N. J. Higham assesses how best to approach the text as an historical source and offers a fresh approach to how we should engage today with Bede's Ecclesiastical History the most important source for early medieval history ever written. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. (Re-) Reading Bede: An Author and his Audience 2. The Ecclesiastical History: Bede's Purposes and Ours 3. Structure, Organisation and Context 4. Message and Discourse 5. From Text to Context: Ceolwulf and the Ecclesiastical History. Editions and Translations of the Works of Bede

'Professor Higham is admirable in stressing how far, how intensely, Bede's inner world differed from that of modern readers...This is a reflective work, infused by a vigorous spirit of curious inquiry. Many students of Bede will turn to it, quite often.' James Campbell, Worcester College, Oxford

Autorentext
N.J. Higham is Professor of Early Medieval and Landscape History at the University of Manchester. His publications include King Arthur: Myth-Making and History (Routledge, 2002) and the edited collection Edward the Elder (Routledge, 2001).

Klappentext
Bede's Ecclesiastical History is the main source for early medieval English history; without it there would be little to say about English history in the period. In "Re-Reading Bede, " N.J. Hingham offers a fresh reading of Bede's history, looking at its internal construction, its political, social and cultural values and what light it throws on the history of the period, especially in the heroes it presents and the conversion of England to Christianity.


Zusammenfassung
Through a close reading of Bede, N. J. Higham assesses how best to approach the text as an historical source and offers a fresh approach to how we should engage today with Bede's Ecclesiastical History the most important source for early medieval history ever written.

Inhalt
1. (Re-) Reading Bede: An Author and his Audience 2. The Ecclesiastical History: Bede's Purposes and Ours 3. Structure, Organisation and Context 4. Message and Discourse 5. From Text to Context: Ceolwulf and the Ecclesiastical History. Editions and Translations of the Works of Bede

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