The Cambridge Companion to Bede

List of maps page vii
List of illustrations viii
Notes on contributors ix
Note on editions and translations xii
Preface xv
Chronological table xviii
Maps xxi
PART I. BEDE\'S LIFE AND CONTEXT 1
1. Bede’s life in context / Michelle P. Brown 3
2. Secular and political contexts / James Campbell 25
3. The world of Latin learning / Rosalind Love 40
4. Church and monastery in Bede\'s Northumbria / Sarah Foot 54
5. British and Irish contexts / Clare Stancliffe 69
6. The foundation of Bede\'s Wearmouth-Jarrow / Ian Wood 84
PART II. BEDE\'S WRITINGS 97
7. Bede and education / Calvin B. Kendall 99
8. Bede and science / Faith Wallis 113
9. Bede and the Old Testament / Scott DeGregorio 127
10. Bede and the New Testament / Arthur G. Holder 142
11. Bede and preaching / Lawrence T. Martin 156
12. Bede and history / Alan Thacker 170
PART III. RECEPTION AND INFLUENCE 191
13. The cult of Bede / David Rollason 193
14. Bede and the continent in the Carolingian age and beyond / Joshua A. Westgard 201
15. Bede in later Anglo-Saxon England / Sharon M. Rowley 216
16. The Englishness of Bede, from then to now / Allen J. Frantzen 229
Further reading 243
Bibliography 246
Index 265