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1 The cambridge companion to bedeAs the major writer and thinker of the Anglo-Saxon period, the venerable Bedeis a keyfigure in the study of the literature and thought of this time. ThisCompanion, written by an international team of specialists, is a key introductoryguide to bede , his writings and his world. Thefirst part of the volume focuses onBede s cultural and intellectual milieu, covering his life, the secular-politicalcontexts of his day, the foundations of the Latin learning he inherited and soughtto perpetuate, the ecclesiastical and monastic setting of early Northumbria, andthe foundation of his home institution, Wearmouth-Jarrow. The book thenconsiders bede s writing in detail, treating his educational, exegetical and histor-ical works. Concluding with a detailed assessment of bede sinfluence and recep-tion from the time of his death up to the modern age, theCompanionenables thereader to view bede s writings within a wider cultural degregoriois Associate Professor of English Literature at theUniversity of Michigan Dearborn.

2 He has published extensively on bede as abiblical exegete and Church reformer. His books include, as editor,Innovationand Tradition in the Writings of the venerable bede , and, as translator, bede : OnEzra and Nehemiah, which won the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists prize for best edition/translation published in Anglo-Saxon studies,2005 complete list of books in the series is at the back of this in this web service cambridge University PressCambridge University Press978-0-521-73073-0 - The cambridge companion to BedeEdited by Scott DeGregorioFrontmatterMore informationTHE CAMBRIDGECOMPANION TOBEDEEDITED BYSCOTT DEGREGORIOU niversity of Michigan in this web service cambridge University PressCambridge University Press978-0-521-73073-0 - The cambridge companion to BedeEdited by Scott DeGregorioFrontmatterMore informationcambridge university pressCambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore,S o Paulo, Delhi, Dubai, TokyoCambridge University PressThe Edinburgh Building.

3 Cambridgecb2 8ru,UKPublished in the United States of America by cambridge University Press, New on this title: cambridge University Press2010 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exceptionand to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements,no reproduction of any part may take place withoutthe written permission of cambridge University published2010 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, CambridgeA catalogue record for this publication is available from the British LibraryLibrary of Congress Cataloguing in Publication dataThe cambridge companion to bede / edited by Scott cm. ( cambridge companions to )isbn 978-0-521-51495-8(hardback)1. bede , the venerable , Saint,673 735. I. DeGregorio, Scott. II. Title. III. 092 dc222010000702isbn 978-0-521-51495-8 Hardbackisbn 978-0-521-73073-0 PaperbackCambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence oraccuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to inthis publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is,or will remain, accurate or in this web service cambridge University PressCambridge University Press978-0-521-73073-0 - The cambridge companion to BedeEdited by Scott DeGregorioFrontmatterMore informationCONTENTSList of mapspageviiList of illustrationsviiiNotes on contributorsixNote on editions and translationsxiiPrefacexvChronological tablexviiiMapsxxiPART I bede S LIFE AND CONTEXT11 bede s life in contextmichelle p.

4 Brown32 Secular and political contextsjames campbell253 The world of Latin learningrosalind love404 Church and monastery in bede s Northumbriasarah foot545 British and Irish contextsclare stancliffe696 The foundation of bede s Wearmouth-Jarrowian in this web service cambridge University PressCambridge University Press978-0-521-73073-0 - The cambridge companion to BedeEdited by Scott DeGregorioFrontmatterMore informationPART II bede SWRITINGS977 bede and educationcalvin b. kendall998 bede and sciencefaith wallis1139 bede and the Old Testamentscott degregorio12710 bede and the New Testamentarthur g. holder14211 bede and preachinglawrence t. martin15612 bede and historyalan thacker170 PART III RECEPTION AND INFLUENCE19113 The cult of Bededavid rollason19314 bede and the continent in the Carolingian age and beyondjoshua a.

5 Westgard20115 bede in later Anglo-Saxon Englandsharon m. rowley21616 The Englishness of bede , from then to nowallen j. frantzen229 Further in this web service cambridge University PressCambridge University Press978-0-521-73073-0 - The cambridge companion to BedeEdited by Scott DeGregorioFrontmatterMore informationMAPSMap1 Anglo-Saxon England. From Godden and Lapidge (eds.),TheCambridge companion to Old English Literature(CambridgeUniversity Press,1991)pagexxiiMap2 The making of Northumbria: Bernicia, Deira and their neighboursin the early seventh century. Based upon Rollason,Northumbria,500 1100( cambridge University Press,2003)xxiiiMap3 The Church in early Anglo-Saxon Northumbria. From Foot,Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England( cambridge UniversityPress,2006)xxivMap4 Wearmouth and Jarrow, and the lower reaches of the Tyne andWear.

6 Map Ian WoodxxvMap5 Carolingian schools, scriptoria and literary centres. FromMcKitterick,The New cambridge Medieval History, ( cambridge University Press,1995) in this web service cambridge University PressCambridge University Press978-0-521-73073-0 - The cambridge companion to BedeEdited by Scott DeGregorioFrontmatterMore informationILLUSTRATIONS1 The West Tower, St Peter s Church, Wearmouth (lower two stages andthe nave wall date from the670s). Photo by the authorpage62St Paul s Church, Jarrow. Photo by the author73 The Codex Amiatinus (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana,Amiatino1, ), Wearmouth-Jarrow, early eighth century (pre-716).Reprinted from R. Marsden,The Text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England( cambridge University Press,1995)134A leaf from the Book of Kings, from one of the Ceolfrith Bibles, TheMiddleton Leaves (London, British Library, Add.)

7 MS45025, ),Wearmouth-Jarrow, early eighth century (pre-716). Photo courtesy ofthe British Library Board145 The St Petersburg bede , Wearmouth-Jarrow, mid eighth century(St Petersburg, National Library of Russia, ), Photocourtesy of National Library of Russia, St Petersburg156 The Tiberius bede , a copy of theEcclesiastical Historymade atCanterbury, early ninth century (London, British Library, Cotton , ). Photo courtesy of the British Library Board167 Ezra the Scribe, Codex Amiatinus (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Amiatino1, ), Wearmouth-Jarrow, early eighth century(pre-716). Photo courtesy of the Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana178 The opening of St Matthew s Gospel, The Lindisfarne Gospels (London,British Library, Cotton MS , 27r). Photo courtesy of theBritish Library Board209 Stained-glass window depicting an evangelist, St Paul s Church, Jarrow,680s ( bede s World Museum, Jarrow).

8 Photo courtesy of the PCC,St Paul s Church, Jarrow, and of bede s World Museum, Jarrow2210 Inhabited vine-scroll, St Paul s Church, Jarrow,680s. Photo by theauthor, courtesy of the PCC, St Paul s Church, in this web service cambridge University PressCambridge University Press978-0-521-73073-0 - The cambridge companion to BedeEdited by Scott DeGregorioFrontmatterMore informationNOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS michelle p. brownis Professor of Medieval Manuscript Studies and CourseTutor to the History of the Book MA at the School of Advanced Study, University ofLondon. She was for many years the Curator of Medieval and IlluminatedManuscripts at the British Library, where she remains as a part-time project officer,and was until recently a Lay Canon and member of Chapter at St Paul s Cathedral,London. Her books includeThe Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and theScribeandManuscripts from the Anglo-Saxon campbellretired in2002as Fellow of Worcester College where he hadtaught medieval history since1957and as Professor of Medieval History in theUniversity of Oxford.

9 He works on Anglo-Saxon history and urban of his on the former subject are collected inEssays in Anglo-SaxonHistoryandThe Anglo-Saxon State. He is a Fellow of the British degregoriois Associate Professor of English Literature at the Universityof Michigan Dearborn. He has published extensively on bede as a biblical exegeteand Church reformer. His books include, as editor,Innovation and Tradition in theWritings of the venerable bede , and, as translator, bede : On Ezra and Nehemiah,which won the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists prize for best edition/translation published in Anglo-Saxon studies,2005 footis Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Christ Church, has published widely on the Anglo-Saxon Church, includingVeiled Women:The Disappearance of Nuns from Anglo-Saxon EnglandandMonastic Life inAnglo-Saxon England, j.

10 Frantzenteaches in the English Department of Loyola UniversityChicago. He is the author, most recently, ofBloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice,and the Great War; co-editor, with John Hines, ofC dmon s Hymn and MaterialCulture in the World of bede ; and editor of the Anglo-Saxon penitentials ( ). in this web service cambridge University PressCambridge University Press978-0-521-73073-0 - The cambridge companion to BedeEdited by Scott DeGregorioFrontmatterMore informationarthur g. holderis Dean, Vice President for Academic Affairs and JohnDillenberger Professor of Christian Spirituality at the Graduate Theological Unionin Berkeley, California. He is the translator ofBede: On the Tabernacle, co-translator ofBede: A Biblical Miscellanyand editor ofThe Blackwell Companionto Christian SpiritualityandChristian Spirituality: The b.