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How, When and Why Did Bede Write His Ecclesiastical History?

by Richard Shaw

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 2 cm

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Bede's Ecclesiastical History is our main source for early Christian Anglo-Saxon England, but how was it written? When? And why? Scholars have spent much of the last half century investigating the latter question - the 'why'. This new study is the first to systematically consider the 'how' and the 'when'. Richard Shaw shows that rather than producing the History at a single point in 731, Bede was working on it for as much as twenty years, from c. 715 to just before his death in 735. Unpacking and extending the period of composition of Bede's best-known book makes sense of the complicated and contradictory evidence for its purposes. The work did not have one context, but several, each with its own distinct constructed audiences. Thus, the History was not written for a single purpose to the exclusion of all others. Nor was it simply written for a variety of reasons. It was written over time - quite a lot of time - and as the world changed during that time, so too did Bede's reasons for writing, the intentions he sought to pursue - and the patrons he hoped to please or to placate.
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  • Author

    Richard Shaw

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Routledge

  • Published

    December 2021

  • Weight

    454g

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780367077341

  • ISBN-10

    0367077345

  • Eden Code

    5613801

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