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The Old English version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica /

"Pioneering examination of the Old English version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica and its reception in the middle ages, from a theoretically informed, multi-disciplinary perspective. The Old English version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum is one of the earliest and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rowley, Sharon M. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Old English
Publicado: Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, [2011]
Colección:Anglo-Saxon studies ; 16.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. The manuscripts and editions of the OEHE
  • 2. Backgrounds, contexts and the history of scholarship
  • 3. Gentes names and the question of "national" identity in the OEHE
  • 4. Rewriting salvation history
  • 5. Who read Æthelbert's letter? Translation, mediation and authority in the OEHE
  • 6. Queen takes bishop : marriage, conversion and papal authority in the OEHE
  • 7. Visions of the otherworld : endings, emplacement and mutability in history
  • 8. Anglo-Saxon signs of use in manuscripts O, C and B
  • 9. Later-medieval signs of use in manuscripts Ca and T
  • Conclusion
  • Appendices.