Bede's Historiae Genre, Rhetoric and the Construction of the Anglo-Saxon Church History

The church history of the Anglo-Saxons can only be approached through the lens of a few writers, arguably the greatest of whom is Bede; his works illuminate an otherwise impoverished landscape of ecclesial development from conversion to established Christian church amongst the Anglo-Saxons. Bede, however, had his own agendas - monastic, political, and rhetorical. In her reappraisal of Bede's Ecclesiastical History, Lives of the Saints, History of the Abbots, the Lesser and Greater Chronicles and the Martyrology and the audience for these texts, the author draws out the role played by classical forms of genre and rhetoric in the crafting of his work.Shealso explores the underlying political influences that caused Bede to write historia as he did. In particular, she notes the role of historia in monastic affairs, especially through the generation of a rhetoric of orthodoxy and the power of the cultural capital afforded by this within the relatively newly constituted Christian community in Northumbria. Dr VICKY GUNN is Senior Lecturer, Learning and Teaching Centre, University of Glasgow.

ISBN:	9781843834656
Publisher:	Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:	The Boydell Press
Published date:	18 Jun 2009
DEWEY:	270.2
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	252
Weight:	602g
Height:	167mm
Width:	243mm
Spine width:	26mm

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