Innovation and tradition in the writings of the Venerable Bede / edited by Scott DeGregorio.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DeGregorio, Scott.

Series:

Medieval European studies ; 7.

Medieval European studies ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.

Bede.

Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Church history.

Northumbria (England : Region)--Church history.

Northumbria (England : Region).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Works prior to this book focused on Bede as not only a European, but also as an English scholar, historian, scientist, or a biographer of saints, and have used a traditional approach towards his explanation of the Bible.

Contents:

Introduction : the new Bede / Scott DeGregorio

Who did Bede think he was? / Roger Ray

Bede and the ordering of understanding / Alan Thacker

Si naturam quaeras : reframing Bede's "Science" / Faith Wallis

The responsibility of auctoritas : method and meaning in Bede's commentary on Genesis / Calvin B. Kendall

Bede's neglected commentary on Samuel / George Hardin Brown

Footsteps of his own : Bede's commentary on Ezra-Nehemiah / Scott DeGregorio

Christ as incarnate wisdom in Bede's commentary on the Song of songs / Arthur G. Holder

Bede's originality in his use of the Book of wisdom in his Homilies on the gospels / Lawrence T. Martin

Bede's history in a harsher climate / Walter Goffart

Carolingian perspectives on the authority of Bede / Joyce Hill.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-280) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781935978299

1935978292

OCLC:

923515011

Publisher Number:

2027/heb08903 hdl