A01=Vicky Gunn
Author_Vicky Gunn
Bede
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Christian community
classical forms
cultural capital
Ecclesiastical History
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genre
historia
History of the Abbots
Lives of the Saints
Martyrology
Northumbria
orthodoxy
rhetoric
the Lesser and Greater Chronicles
Product details
- ISBN 9781843834656
- Weight: 538g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Jun 2009
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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A reappraisal of Bede's writings, focusing on his use of genre and rhetoric.
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.
