Innovation And Tradition In The Writings Of The Venerable Bede Wv Medieveal European Studies 1st Edition Scott Degregorio by Scott Degregorio 9781933202099, 1933202092 instant download after payment.

CONTENTS: "Introduction: The New Bede," Scott DeGregorio ? "Who Did Bede Think He Was?" Roger Ray ? "Bede and the Ordering of Understanding," Alan Thacker ? "Si naturam quaeras: Re-Framing Bede's Science," Faith Wallis ? "The Responsibility of Auctoritas: Method and Meaning in Bede's Commentary on Genesis," Calvin B. Kendall ? "Bede's Neglected Commentary on Samuel," George Hardin Brown ? "Footsteps of His Own: Bede's Commentary on Ezra-Nehemiah," Scott DeGregorio ? "Christ as Incarnate Wisdom in Bede's Commentary on the Song of Songs," Arthur G. Holder ? "Bede's Originality in His Use of the Book of Wisdom in His Homilies on the Gospels," Lawrence T. Martin ? "Bede's History in a Harsher Climate," Walter Goffart ? "Carolingian Perspectives on the Authority of Bede," Joyce HillInnovation and Tradition in the Writings of the Venerable Bede demonstrates the vitality of current scholarship and testifies to a remarkable unity-in-diversity of critical perspectives on Bede the exegete, "scientist," social reformer, and pedagogue as well as historian. The Bede who emerges from these new essays was a leading light not only of early England but of medieval European culture at large.--Christopher A. Jones, Ohio State University