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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Bede"”.
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Theorizing prayer in Anglo-Saxon England: Bede and Ælfric
… experience, and sincerity. Yet for the monks Bede (d. 735) and Ælfric (d. 1010) – the Anglo-Saxon authors who address prayer most explicitly and extensively – prayer was fundamentally the “repetition of sacred formulae” in the set prayers found in the liturgy. It was precisely this repetition …
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The Old English Bede: Transmission and Textual History in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts.
… author translated the Old English version of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History (OEB) around the ninth century. Previous research focused on the text’s authorship, specifically on Mercian linguistic features in its earliest manuscript, rather than the reception and transmission of its manuscripts …
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Cosmetic Theology in England, c. 650–1100: Aldhelm of Malmesbury, the Venerable Bede, and Goscelin of St Bertin
… of Malmesbury (c. 639–709), the Venerable Bede (c. 672–735) and Goscelin of St Bertin (c. 1040–1106). These authors, active during three distinct moments of ecclesiastical development—Aldhelm during the conversion of England to Christianity, Bede during a time of corruption and crisis in …
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Retrieving the textual environment of the "Old English Bede": a digital remediation of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 41
… manuscript witness of the Old English Bede (OEB), the vernacular translation of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica (HE). In addition to this important ecclesiastical history, CCCC41 contains unique textual evidence for creative and intellectual scribal engagement: Old English charms, …
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Bede's eschatological thought
… thesis examines the eschatological thought of Bede (673-735). Relevant content is drawn from a wide range of Bede’s exegetical and non-exegetical works. The world ages analogy, crucial to Bede’s perception of time, chronology and eschatology, is discussed in the first four chapters. These …
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Unlearned monsters: An archaeology of the Gothic romance
… and German Reformation, errors in translating Bede into Anglo-Saxon, and stylistic compatibilities between gothic racial myth and ""customary"" politics mythologized the barbarians who ""invaded"" Kent in 449 as native Goths whose return to their homeland redeemed its ""immemorial"" customs of …
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Rex Christus Ascendens: The Christological Cult of the Ascension in Anglo -Saxon England
"Bede was a key figure in the development of Anglo-Saxon Ascension theology, placing the Blessed Virgin in his Ascension hymn as mater ecclesia , the church founded at the Ascension by Christ. Bede also emphasized the regal nature of Christ and his role as head of the church, a body whose members …
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'Spells That Have Lost Their Virtue': The Mythology and Psychology of Shame in the Early Novels of George Eliot
… early novels Scenes of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner, resist or rewrite English cultural myths that embody shame as a method of social control, especially myths from the Bible related to the doctrine of election. Eliot employs a two-level structure …
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A poetics of Jesus: a/christology in the early fiction of George Eliot
… early fiction - Scenes of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, and The Mill on the Floss - as an exercise in developing what I have termed a poetics of Jesus. This constitutes a poetics that is a space of continual clearing (lichtung) and an ultimate deconstruction of barriers that inhibit the nexus of …
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Death, writing, and remembrance in Anglo-Saxon England
… biblical texts recited and written by the dying Bede (as recorded in Cuthbert’s account of his death) function as “textual relics” and mnemonics for Bede that enable postmortem prayer for his soul; and Chapter 4 demonstrates that the Beowulf-poet imagines heroic death in the familiar terms of …
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The Missionary Spirit of Gregory the Great as Evidenced by His Interest in the Angles
… as the "apostle" of the English since Bede who wrote less than a century after the lifetime of the great Pontiff? Has not the whole of Christendom for fourteen centuries past credited him with the conversion of the English? Whenever the story, of this great undertaking is told, does not …
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The teller in the tale : aspects of narratorial voice in the novels of George Eliot
… mainly on Scenes of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, and Middlemarch.
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Victorian literature and historical time: Genre and historicity after Walter Scott
… de Voyage (1849; 1858), George Eliot’s Adam Bede (1859), and Thomas Hardy’s Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), it demonstrates how genre-driven temporal experiments capture a sense of historical movement through creative figurations of narrative time."
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"The Sudden Thrill of That Change": Framing George Eliot's Social Vision
… well, as the provincial chronicler of <em>Adam Bede</em> becomes the student of the future in <em>Daniel Deronda</em>.</p>
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Palaeoecology of human impact in northwest England during the early medieval period: investigating ‘cultural decline’ in the Dark Ages
… by the Dark Age historians Gildas (c AD 540) and Bede (AD 731). Traditionally this period has been viewed as a time of chaos in which farmland was abandoned and the population declined, leading to woodland regeneration in many areas. In Northwest England, archaeological remains for the early …
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The Whitby life of Gregory the Great: exegesis and hagiography
… major patristic themes are compared with Bede and other insular writers in the presentation of topics that have been of considerable interest to insular historians in recent years. That is themes including: the conversion and salvation of the English people; the ideal pastor; monastic …
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Between Wildness and Art: Ecology and Agency in Victorian Literature
… key texts. George Eliot's character, Adam Bede, is a literal and metaphoric steward, taking both care and responsibility for the non-human world. Gerard Manley Hopkins's theologically-inflected journals and poetry deploy the notion of human sinfulness to call for accountability for the …
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The Manuscript Circulation and Use of Bede’s Martyrology and Religious Practice in Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Europe, to c. 1250
Bede’s Martyrology is the earliest known historical example of a calendrical list of martyrs, or martyrology, composed by Bede c. 725–731. All surviving manuscript copies are Continental and date to the ninth century or later. Historical martyrologies were popular in ninth-century Francia. Thus …
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