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How, When and Why did Bede Write his Ecclesiastical History? (Hardcover)
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How, When and Why did Bede Write his Ecclesiastical History? (Hardcover)
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Bede's Ecclesiastical History is our main source for early
Christian Anglo-Saxon England, but how was it written? When? And
why? Scholars have spent much of the last half century
investigating the latter question - the 'why'. This new study is
the first to systematically consider the 'how' and the 'when'.
Richard Shaw shows that rather than producing the History at a
single point in 731, Bede was working on it for as much as twenty
years, from c. 715 to just before his death in 735. Unpacking and
extending the period of composition of Bede's best-known book makes
sense of the complicated and contradictory evidence for its
purposes. The work did not have one context, but several, each with
its own distinct constructed audiences. Thus, the History was not
written for a single purpose to the exclusion of all others. Nor
was it simply written for a variety of reasons. It was written over
time - quite a lot of time - and as the world changed during that
time, so too did Bede's reasons for writing, the intentions he
sought to pursue - and the patrons he hoped to please or to
placate.
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