Richard Shaw

The Gregorian Mission to Kent in Bede's Ecclesiastical History

Methodology and Sources

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Produktbeschreibung

What material lay behind Bede's narrative in his Ecclesiastical History? What were his sources and were they primary or secondary? This book represents the first systematic attempt to answers these questions, taking as a test case the coherent narrative of the Gregorian mission and the early church in Kent. Through this critique th

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780367593216
• ISBN-10: 0367593211
• Artikelnr.: 69194064

Autorenporträt

Richard Shaw is Associate Professor and Chairman of the History Department at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College. He has published on Antony of Egypt, Cassiodorus, Gregory of Tours, Augustine of Canterbury, Bede, Ælfric of Eynsham, Thomas Aquinas and François de Laval. He was awarded the 2014 Eusebius Essay Prize by the Journal of Ecclesiastical History and was shortlisted for the 2016 Medium Ævum Essay Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: An Early Medieval Historian at Work PART ONE Constructing
the Narrative of the Gregorian Mission to Kent 2. Gregory and the Mission:
HE 1.23-33 3. The Mission Fathers: HE 2.1-11 and 15-20 4. Canterbury before
Theodore: HE 3.8, 3.14, 3.20, 3.29 and 4.1 PART TWO Bede's Sources for Kent
before Theodore 5. Bede's Sources Reconstructed 6. Bede's 'Canterbury
Tales' 7. Conclusion: Bede's Methods and Ours Bibliography