Patrick Wormald

Gebundenes Buch

The Times of Bede

Studies in Early English Christian Society and Its Historian

Herausgeber: Baxter, Stephen

Beschreibung

The Times of Bede Studies in Early English Christian Society and its Historian Patrick Wormald Edited by Stephen Baxter 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.

Autor

The author Before his death in 2004, Patrick Wormald was a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He was previously a Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, a Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Glasgow, and a Student of Christ Church, Oxford. He lectured widely in Europe, Scandinavia and North America and had an international reputation as an early-medieval scholar secured by many impressive and meticulously researched articles and by his most magisterial achievement, The Making of English Law. The Editor Stephen Baxter was one of Patrick Wormald's students, and is a Lecturer in Medieval History at King's College, London.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 673g
• ISBN-13: 9780631166559
• ISBN-10: 0631166556
• Artikelnr.: 21878718

Rezensionen

"The untimely death of Patrick Wormald in 2004 deprived thescholarly community of a brilliant historian best known for hismagisterial study of the development of English law during theAnglo-Saxon period. As the volume under review here clearly shows,Worrnald was also a leading figure in revising our understanding ofBede and his early medieval English cultural milieu." (CHURCHHISTORY, March 2008)

"On display throughout ... is Wormald'sconsiderable intellect and erudition and in the earlier essays inparticular an enviable familiarity with Continental scholarship.There are also occasional flashes of the theater that was a Wormaldlecture." (Catholic Historical Review, October 2008)"This collection exemplifies the high qualities of scholarship,originality and forceful expression which characterized itslamented author. All serious work on Bede and his age has to reckonwith these papers!"
-James Campbell, University of Oxford

"Patrick Wormald's research, driven for over more thanthirty years by the quest to understand and assess Bede, producedwork of a profound coherence and consistency. Here, then, is morethan a collection of classic papers. From two parts, on Bede as athinker who didn't so much reflect as reinflect his world,and on the afterlife of Bede's critique in later Anglo-SaxonEngland, is constructed something wondrously balanced and whole: amasterpiece of a book."
-Janet Nelson, Kings College London