(Ebook) INNOVATION AND TRADITION IN THE WRITINGS OF THE VENERABLE BEDE (WV MEDIEVEAL EUROPEAN STUDIES) by SCOTT DEGREGORIO ISBN 1933202092

(Ebook) INNOVATION AND TRADITION IN THE WRITINGS OF THE VENERABLE BEDE (WV MEDIEVEAL EUROPEAN STUDIES) by SCOTT DEGREGORIO ISBN 1933202092

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