Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow

Zusatztext This is an important and long-awaited book ... an important contribution to the ongoing debate concerning our understanding of these texts and their contexts, with an introduction that provides a synthesis of innovative and exciting recent research. Informationen zum Autor Christopher Grocock studied Latin and French, then specialized in medieval Latin for a Ph. D at Bedford College, University of London where he also taught part-time. He was Project Director of the Bede's World Museum from 1993-1966. He has also been a Museums Consultant, Fund-Raiser, and is now a teacher of Classics (currently at Bedales School).Ian Wood has taught at the University of Leeds since 1976. His research interests are in the history of seventh- and eighth-century England, Merovingian Francia, Mission in the Early Middle Ages, and the modern historiography of the end of the Roman Empire. Fragments of History: Rethinking the Ruthwell and Bewcastle Monuments, published jointly with Fred Orton and Clare Lees in 2007, won the Historians of British Art Prize. In 2012 he gave the O'Donnell lectures in Oxford. Klappentext A scholarly and detailed but readable presentation of four key texts which shed light on the activity of the Venerable Bede (659-735) and the world of Early Medieval Northumbria. Zusammenfassung A scholarly and detailed but readable presentation of four key texts which shed light on the activity of the Venerable Bede (659-735) and the world of Early Medieval Northumbria.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Grocock, Christopher Wood Grocock, I. N. Wood
• Assisted by: Christopher Grocock (Editor), Grocock Christopher (Editor), I. N. Wood (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2013
• EAN: 9780198207610
• ISBN: 978-0-19-820761-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Oxford Medieval Texts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Monasticism, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066), Christianity, CE period up to c 1500, History of Religion, British & Irish history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Church history, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, Religious communities and monasticism, Christian communities & monasticism