Bede and the future

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Notes on Contributors......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 14
Conventions......Page 16
Introduction
......Page 18
1  Why did Bede Write a Commentary on Revelation?
......Page 40
2  Why did Heresy Matter to Bede? Present and Future Contexts
......Page 64
3  Separation Anxiety: Bede and Threats to Wearmouth and Jarrow
......Page 84
4

Bede and Islam......Page 110
5

Bede’s History of the Future......Page 132
6  The Ends and Futures of Bede’s De temporum ratione
......Page 156
7

Christology and the Future in Bede’s Annus Domini......Page 178
8

Quae res Quem sit Habitura Finem, Posterior Aetas Videbit: Prosperity, Adversity and Bede’s Hope for the Future of Northumbria......Page 198
9  Visions of Reform: Bede’s Later Writings in Context
......Page 224
Bibliography......Page 250
Index......Page 280