Bede and the Theory of Everything
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Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781789147889
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 01/10/2023
Width: 13.8 cm
Height: 21.6 cm
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.
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