Edited by Peter Darby and Máirín MacCarron
“Combining rigorous scholarly research with a celebration of the depth and complexity of Bede’s work, Bede the scholar deepens our understanding of the scholarly programme undertaken by one of the most important intellectual figures of the early middle ages.”
CONTENTS
Introduction
Peter Darby and Máirín MacCarron
1. The autobiographical statement of Bede the scholar in Ecclesiastical history 5:24
Peter Darby and Máirín MacCarron
2. Co-heirs of Christ’s glory: deification in Bede
Arthur Holder
3. Bede’s biblical capitula and the oriented reading of Scripture at Wearmouth-Jarrow
Appendix
Celia Chazelle
4. Bede and the Gospel of John: theology, preaching and the Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum
Susan Cremin
5. Bede’s perfecti and the Gospel of Matthew
Emily Quigley
6. Bede, Ceolfrith, and Cassiodorus: biblical scholarship at Wearmouth and Jarrow
Alan T. Thacker
7. Bede and the Hebrew alphabets
Damian Fleming
8. Biblical-textual criticism in Bede’s commentary on Genesis
John J. Gallagher
9. Bede and ‘the nature of things’
Eoghan Ahern
10. Revisiting Bede’s miracles: earth, water, and healing in the Ecclesiastical history, commentary On Genesis, and prose Life of Cuthbert
Sharon M. Rowley
11. Bede’s Martyrology: a resource and spiritual lesson
Paul C. Hilliard
Bibliography
Index