The Old English Version of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica

Pioneering examination of the Old English version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica and its reception in the middle ages, from a theoretically informed, multi-disciplinary perspective.

List of contents

Introduction
The Manuscripts and Editions of the OEHE
Backgrounds, Contexts and the History of Scholarship
Gentes Names and the Question of 'National' Identity in the OEHE
Rewriting Salvation History
Who Read Æthelbert's Letter? Translation, Mediation and Authority in the OEHE
Queen Takes Bishop: Marriage, Conversion and Papal Authority in the OEHE
Visions of the Otherworld: Endings, Emplacement and Mutability in History
Anglo-Saxon Signs of Use in Manuscripts O, C and B
Later Medieval Signs of Use in Manuscripts Ca and T
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography

About the author

Sharon M. Rowley

Product details

• Authors: Sharon M Rowley, Sharon M. Rowley
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2011
• EAN: 9781843842736
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-273-6
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 612 g
• Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Anthologien (nicht Lyrik), RELIGION / Christianity / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Medieval