The World of Bede

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Hardcover | 24 December 1990

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An engaging and accessible introduction to the writings and intellectual development of the Venerable Bede (d.735), this book (originally published in 1970 and out of print for many years) is now made available again for the enjoyment of all those interested in the early medieval world. A new preface and supplementary bibliography by Michael Lapidge has brought the book up to date. Based almost entirely on primary sources, particularly Bede's own writings, the book surveys the fragmented state of Britain after the Anglo-Saxon conquests, tracing the - sometimes faltering - rebirth of Christianity from the time of St. Augustine through to the glories of the golden age of Northumbria in the eighth century. What was Bede's contribution to the growth of scholarship? Why is his famous Ecclesiastical History of the English Church and People still so highly regarded? How did Bede see his own age? What traditions most influenced him? Peter Hunter Blair answers all these questions, assessing Bede sympatheticaly in all the fields in which he was active, as teacher, orthographer, moral philospher, grammarian, theologian, natural scientist and, above all, as our first modern historian.

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"In the foreword, Michael Lapidge, who supervised the reprinting, says, 'Hunter Blair's book stands up well to the passage of time: being concerned with Bede himself and not with the industry of Bede scholarship.' Anyone (such as this reviewer) who read this book twenty years ago and who has just returned to it will agree...This remains a fine book." Joseph F. Kelly, Church History

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Foreword
Preface
List of abbreviations
Alter Orbis
Change in the west
Bede's view of Britain
Britons and English
English foundations
Towards Christianity
The initiation of a mission
The journey to England
Gregory's English correspondence
Bede's account of the mission
The first Archbishops of Canterbury
Paulinus in Northumbria
'Celtic' and 'Roman' missionaries
The Growth of Monasticism
Gaulish and Italian influences
Spanish influences
Aspects of English monasticism
Benedict Biscop's early years
The Foundation of Wearmouth
The Foundation of Jarrow
The Abbacy of Ceolfrith
Learning, Teaching and Writing
The regular life
The Bible in the west
The Northumbrian Bible
Education and the grammarians
Reading and psalmody
Number and time
The lives of saints
Secular and Christian books
Candela Ecclesiae
Select Bibliography
Index
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