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Bede's Historiae : genre, rhetoric, and the construction of Anglo-Saxon church history /

He 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 Christi.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gunn, Vicky
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Understanding Bede's audience
  • The historical and contemporary context of Northumbrian hagiography and historiae production
  • Bede's agenda revisited : monastic superiority in the Ecclesiastical history
  • Bede's approach to the genre of historia
  • A case of generic discomfort : Bede's History of the abbots
  • A case of innovation within generic boundaries : Bede's Martyrology
  • Bede's compositional techniques in the genre of ecclesiastical history.