Description: Bede's Historiae : Genre, Rhetoric and the Construction of Anglo-Saxon Church History, Hardcover by Gunn, Vicky, ISBN 1843834650, ISBN-13 9781843834656, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK The church history of the Anglo-Saxons can only be approached through the lens of a few writers, arguably the greatest of whom is Bede; his works illuminate an otherwise impoverished landscape of ecclesial development from conversion to established Christian church amongst the Anglo-Saxons. Bede, however, had his own agendas - monastic, political, and rhetorical. In her reappraisal of Bede's Ecclesiastical History, Lives of the Saints, History of the Abbots, the Lesser and Greater Chronicles and the Martyrology and the audience for these texts, the author draws out the role played by classical forms of genre and rhetoric in the crafting of his also explores the underlying political influences that caused Bede to write historia as he did. In particular, she notes the role of historia in monastic affairs, especially through the generation of a rhetoric of orthodoxy and the power of the cultural capital afforded by this within the relatively newly constituted Christian community in Northumbria. Dr VICKY GUNN is Senior Lecturer, Learning and Teaching Centre, University of Glasgow.
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Book Title: Bede's Historiae : Genre, Rhetoric and the Construction of Anglo-
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LTD
Publication Year: 2009
Subject: Archaeology
Item Height: 234 mm
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Bede's Historiae: Genre, Rhetoric and the Construction of the Anglo-Saxon Church History
Type: Textbook
Author: Vicky Gunn
Item Width: 156 mm
Format: Hardcover
