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The Gregorian Mission to Kent in Bede's Ecclesiastical History - Methodology and Sources (Hardcover)
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The Gregorian Mission to Kent in Bede's Ecclesiastical History - Methodology and Sources (Hardcover)
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Historians have long relied on Bede's Ecclesiastical History for
their narrative of early Christian Anglo-Saxon England, but what
material lay behind Bede's own narrative? What were his sources and
how reliable were they? How much was based on contemporary
material? How much on later evidence? What was rhetoric? What
represents his own agendas, deductions or even inventions? This
book represents the first systematic attempt to answer these
questions for Bede's History, taking as a test case the coherent
narrative of the Gregorian mission and the early Church in Kent.
Through this critique, it becomes possible, for the first time, to
catalogue Bede's sources and assess their origins, provenance and
value - even reconstructing the original shape of many that are now
lost. The striking paucity of his primary sources for the period
emerges clearly. This study explains the reason why this was the
case. At the same time, Bede is shown to have had access to a
greater variety of texts, especially documentary, than has
previously been realised. This volume thus reveals Bede the
historian at work, with implications for understanding his
monastery, library and intellectual milieu together with the world
in which he lived and worked. It also showcases what can be
achieved using a similar methodology for the rest of the
Ecclesiastical History and for other contemporary works. Most
importantly, thanks to this study, it is now feasible - indeed
necessary - for subsequent historians to base their reconstructions
of the events of c.600 not on Bede but on his sources. As a result,
this book lays the foundations for future work on the conversion of
Anglo-Saxon England and offers the prospect of replacing and not
merely refining Bede's narrative of the history of early Christian
Kent.
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