The Cambridge companion to Bede

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Group Author: DeGregorio Scott
Published: Cambridge University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge New York
Publication Dates: 2010.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Cambridge companions to literature
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Carrier Form: xx, 272 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780521514958 (hbk.)
0521514959 (hbk.)
9780521730730 (pbk.)
0521730732 (pbk.)
Index Number: B979
CLC: B979.956.1
Call Number: B979.956.1/C178
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-264) and index.
Part 1. Bede's life and context. ch.1. Bede's life in context / Michelle P. Brown -- ch. 2. Secular and political contexts / James Campbell -- ch. 3. The world of Latin learning / Rosalind Love -- ch. 4. Church and monastery in Bede's Northumbria / Sarah Foot -- ch. 5. British and Irish contexts / Clare Stancliffe -- ch. 6. The foundation of Bede's Wearmouth-Jarrow / Ian Wood -- Part 2. Bede's writings. ch. 7. Bede and education ...
"The introduction of Christianity affected the organisation of power. A comparable development is seen most powerfully in the career of Wilfrid: the church had produced a new kind of potentate, an ecclesiastical one, with a status and influence transcending the boundaries of a single kingdom"--Provided by publisher.