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Bede's Historiae (PDF eBook)


Bede's Historiae (PDF eBook)

eBook by Gunn, Vicky

Bede's Historiae (PDF eBook)

£24.99

ISBN:
9781846156939
Publication Date:
18 Jun 2009
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer
Imprint:
Boydell Press
Pages:
256 pages
Format:
eBook
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Bede's Historiae (PDF eBook)

Description

A reappraisal of Bede's writings, focusing on his use of genre and rhetoric.The 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 Christian church amongst the Anglo-Saxons. Bede, however, had his own agendas - monastic, political, and rhetorical. In her reappraisal of Bede's Ecclesiastical History, Lives of the Saints, History of the Abbots, the Lesser and Greater Chronicles and the Martyrology and the audience for these texts, the author draws out the role played by classical forms of genre and rhetoric in the crafting of his work.Shealso explores the underlying political influences that caused Bede to write historia as he did. In particular, she notes the role of historia in monastic affairs, especially through the generation of a rhetoric of orthodoxy and the power of the cultural capital afforded by this within the relatively newly constituted Christian community in Northumbria. Dr VICKY GUNN is Senior Lecturer, Learning and Teaching Centre, University of Glasgow.

Contents

Introduction 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 Conclusion Bibliography

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