The Cambridge Companion to Bede (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

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2010
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As the major writer and thinker of the Anglo-Saxon period, the Venerable Bede is a key figure in the study of the literature and thought of this time. This Companion, written by an international team of specialists, is a key introductory guide to Bede, his writings, and his world. The first part of the volume focuses on Bede's cultural and intellectual milieu, covering his life, the secular-political contexts of his day, the foundations of the Latin learning he inherited and sought to perpetuate, the ecclesiastical and monastic setting of early Northumbria, and the foundation of his home institution, Wearmouth-Jarrow. The book then considers Bede's writing in detail, treating his educational, exegetical and historical works. Concluding with a detailed assessment of Bede's influence and reception from the time of his death up to the modern age, the Companion enables the reader to view Bede's writings within a wider cultural context.

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As the major writer and thinker of the Anglo-Saxon period, the Venerable Bede is a key figure in the study of the literature and thought of this time. This Companion, written by an international team of specialists, is a key introductory guide to Bede, his writings, and his world. The first part of the volume focuses on Bede's cultural and intellectual milieu, covering his life, the secular-political contexts of his day, the foundations of the Latin learning he inherited and sought to perpetuate, the ecclesiastical and monastic setting of early Northumbria, and the foundation of his home institution, Wearmouth-Jarrow. The book then considers Bede's writing in detail, treating his educational, exegetical and historical works. Concluding with a detailed assessment of Bede's influence and reception from the time of his death up to the modern age, the Companion enables the reader to view Bede's writings within a wider cultural context.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 302
Edition: 1
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 06 May 2010
ISBN 10: 0521730732
ISBN 13: 9780521730730
Book Overview: A key introductory guide for students to Bede's cultural world, his writings, and his reputation in later times.

Media Reviews

'For students of Bede, this is a most valuable book.' New Directions
'... this text, especially with its excellent further readings and bibliography, should be the first port of call for anyone seeking to engage with Bede or his world.' The Medieval Review
'This Cambridge Companion is a work of genuine and substantial learning, and fully worthy of its subject.' Northern History
'This volume of expert essays on Bede and his legacy expounds received rather than experimental 'paradigms of understanding'.' Jordon Wales, Religious Studies Review
'A welcome contribution to the field.' The Review of English Studies
Scott DeGregorio is to be commended for bringing together this collection of essays from men and women who are truly experts in the field [...] The contributors achieve the objectives of the volume clearly and efficiently...This volume on Bede introduces readers to a writer, soundly contextualized, who had sophistication, nuance, and influence...this text, especially with its excellent further readings and bibliography, should be the first port of call for anyone seeking to engage with Bede or his world. -Paul C. Hilliard, University of St. Mary of the Lake - Mundelein Seminary, The Medieval Review

Author Bio

Scott DeGregorio is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Michigan, Dearborn. He has published extensively on Bede as a biblical exegete and church reformer. His books include, as editor, Innovation and Tradition in the Writings of the Venerable Bede, and as translator, Bede: On Ezra and Nehemiah, which won the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists' prize for best edition/translation published in Anglo-Saxon studies, 2005-7.