{"product_id":"the-times-of-bede-9780631166559","title":"The Times of Bede","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten by the late Patrick Wormald, one of the leading authorities on Bede's life and work over a 30-year period, this book is a collection of studies on Bede and early English Christian society.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eA collection of studies on Bede, the greatest historian of the English Middle Ages, and the early English church.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIntegrates the religious, intellectual, political and social history of the English in their first Christian centuries.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLooks at how Bede and other writers charted the establishment of a Christian community within a warrior society.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures the first map of all known or likely early Christian communities in England.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes plans and illustrations of the finest early Christian church in England at Brixworth.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn appendix considers Bede's treatment of St. Hilda, the first great English female saint.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The untimely death of Patrick Wormald in 2004 deprived the scholarly community of a brilliant historian best known for his magisterial study of the development of English law during the Anglo-Saxon period. As the volume under review here clearly shows, Worrnald was also a leading figure in revising our understanding of Bede and his early medieval English cultural milieu.\" (CHURCH HISTORY, March 2008)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  “On display throughout … is Wormald’s considerable intellect and erudition and in the earlier essays in particular an enviable familiarity with Continental scholarship. There are also occasional flashes of the theater that was a Wormald lecture.” (\u003ci\u003eCatholic Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e, October 2008)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword.  \u003cp\u003eEditorial Note by Stephen Baxter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I An Early Christian Culture and its Critic.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Bede and Benedict Biscop.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Bede, \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e and the Conversion of the Anglo Saxon Aristocracy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Bede, the \u003ci\u003eBretwaldas\u003c\/i\u003e and the origins of the \u003ci\u003eGens Anglorum\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Bede and the conversion of England: the charter evidence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II The Impact of Bede's Critique.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Æthelwold and his Continental Counterparts: Contact, Comparison, Contrast.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Bede and the 'Church of the English'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 How do we know so much about Anglo Saxon Deerhurst?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Aristocrats as Abbots: a context for the making of Brixworth.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: Hilda, Saint and Scholar (614-680).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403389673815,"sku":"9780631166559","price":73.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631166559.jpg?v=1730483319","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-times-of-bede-9780631166559","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}