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Bede and the Theory of Everything

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-10-01
Mått138 x 216 x 27 mm
Vikt736 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMedieval Lives
Antal sidor312
FörlagReaktion Books
ISBN9781789147889

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Introduction1.Boyhood and Monkwearmouth-Jarrow2.Bede the Monk and Priest3.Bede the Scholar and Scientist: Cosmos and Logos4.Bede, Poetry and the Origins of Written English5.Bede the English Patristic6.Bede the Historian and Reformer7.Bede the Scribe of Scripture and the Ceolfrith Bibles8.Bede and Lindisfarne9.Bede and His LegacyAppendix: Bede's CVReferencesBibliographyAcknowledgementsPhoto AcknowledgementsIndex