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Times of Bede by Patrick Wormald
Studies in Early English Christian Society and its Historian
A collection of studies on Bede and early English Christian society. This book's central concern is the establishment of a Christian community within a warrior society, and the way this was charted by Bede and other writers of his time. An appendix considers Bede's treatment of St Hilda, the first great English female saint.Written over a 30-year period by the late Patrick Wormald, one of the leading authorities on the Early Middle Ages, this book is a collection of studies on Bede and early English Christian society. Its central concern is the establishment of a Christian community within a warrior society, and the way this was charted, not always sympathetically, by Bede and other writers of his time. A subsidiary theme is the emergence of a self-consciously English Church, which was in turn the foundation of an English state. An appendix considers Bede's treatment of St. Hilda, the first great English female saint. The book will be welcomed for its systematic integration of the religious, intellectual, political and social history of the English in their first Christian centuries. |
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| Author(s) : Patrick Wormald | Format : Hardback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0631166556 | ISBN-13 : 9780631166559 |
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Product Details:
Country Publication : United Kingdom
Publication Date : 01/10/2006
Publisher : Blackwell Publishers
Page Length : 312mm
Page Size : 229mm