Bede and the Theory of Everything
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2023
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-788-9 (ISBN)
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-788-9 (ISBN)
An investigation of the life and world of Bede, 'the father of English history'.
This book investigates the life and world of Bede (c. 673-735), foremost scholar of the early Middle Ages and 'the father of English history'. It examines his notable feats, including calculating the first tide-tables; playing a role in the creation of the Ceolfrith Bibles and the Lindisfarne Gospels; writing the earliest extant Old English poetry and the earliest translation of part of the Bible into English; and composing his famous Ecclesiastical History of the English People, with its single dating system. Despite never leaving Northumbria, Bede also wrote a guide to the Holy Land. Michelle P. Brown, an authority on the period, describes new discoveries regarding Bede's handwriting, his research programme and his previously lost Old English translation of St John's Gospel, dictated on his deathbed.
This book investigates the life and world of Bede (c. 673-735), foremost scholar of the early Middle Ages and 'the father of English history'. It examines his notable feats, including calculating the first tide-tables; playing a role in the creation of the Ceolfrith Bibles and the Lindisfarne Gospels; writing the earliest extant Old English poetry and the earliest translation of part of the Bible into English; and composing his famous Ecclesiastical History of the English People, with its single dating system. Despite never leaving Northumbria, Bede also wrote a guide to the Holy Land. Michelle P. Brown, an authority on the period, describes new discoveries regarding Bede's handwriting, his research programme and his previously lost Old English translation of St John's Gospel, dictated on his deathbed.
Michelle P. Brown is Professor Emerita of Medieval Manuscript Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and was formerly Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library. Her books include Art of the Islands (2016) and The Lindisfarne Gospels (2003).
Introduction
1.Boyhood and Monkwearmouth-Jarrow
2.Bede the Monk and Priest
3.Bede the Scholar and Scientist: Cosmos and Logos
4.Bede, Poetry and the Origins of Written English
5.Bede the English Patristic
6.Bede the Historian and Reformer
7.Bede the Scribe of Scripture and the Ceolfrith Bibles
8.Bede and Lindisfarne
9.Bede and His Legacy
Appendix: Bede's CV
References
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.09.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Medieval Lives |
| Zusatzinfo | 52 illustrations, 32 in colour |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78914-788-3 / 1789147883 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78914-788-9 / 9781789147889 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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