Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Understanding Bede's Audience
- 2 The Historical and Contemporary Context of Northumbrian Hagiography and Historiae Production
- 3 Bede's Agenda Revisited:Monastic Superiority in the Ecclesiastical History
- 4 Bede's Approach to the Genre of Historia
- 5 A Case of Generic Discomfort: Bede's History of the Abbots
- 6 A Case of Innovation within Generic Boundaries: Bede's Martyrology
- 7 Bede's Compositional Techniques in the Genre of Ecclesiastical History
- Conclusion
- References
- Bibliography
- Secondary Sources
- Index
References
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Understanding Bede's Audience
- 2 The Historical and Contemporary Context of Northumbrian Hagiography and Historiae Production
- 3 Bede's Agenda Revisited:Monastic Superiority in the Ecclesiastical History
- 4 Bede's Approach to the Genre of Historia
- 5 A Case of Generic Discomfort: Bede's History of the Abbots
- 6 A Case of Innovation within Generic Boundaries: Bede's Martyrology
- 7 Bede's Compositional Techniques in the Genre of Ecclesiastical History
- Conclusion
- References
- Bibliography
- Secondary Sources
- Index
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- Bede's 'Historiae'Genre, Rhetoric and the Construction of the Anglo-Saxon Church History, pp. 189 - 225Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2009