• Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. The career of Archbishop Theodore Michael Lapidge; 2. The Syriac background Sebastian P. Brock; 3. Theodore of Tarsus and the Greek culture of his time Guglielmo Cavallo; 4. Rome in the seventh century Thomas F. X. Noble; 5. Theodore, the English church and the monothelete controversy Henry Chadwick; 6. The importation of Mediterranean manuscripts into Theodore's England David N. Dumville; 7. Theodore and the Latin canon law Martin Brett; 8. The Penitential of Theodore and the Iudicia Theodori Thomas Charles-Edwards; 9. Theodore and the Passio S. Anastasii Carmela Vircillo Franklin; 10. Theodore and the Laterculus Malalianus Jane Barbara Stevenson; 11. Theodore and the liturgy Christopher Hohler; 12. Theodore's Bible: the Pentateuch Richard Marsden; 13. Theodore's Bible: the gospels Patrick McGurk; 14. Theodore and Anglo-Latin octosyllabic verse Michael Lapidge; 15. The Canterbury Bible glosses: facts and problems J. D. Pheifer; Index.

'… to distil from the most difficult and often apparently impenetrable sources such a picture of a major historical character, who brought to Britain the cultural heritage of the rest of Christendom, makes the book an outstanding scholarly event.' Christopher Brooke