(Re-)reading Bede: the ecclesiastical history in context

(Re-)reading Bede : an author and his audience

Bede's persona

Reputation and commemoration

Bede and his audience

The ecclesiastical history : Bede's purposes and ours

Contemporary issues : alternative agendas

Bede and reform

Bede and Wilfrid

Bede's agenda : the preface

The recapitulation

Structure, organisation and context

Structure

Chapterisation

Bede's chronicles and the ecclesiastical history

Book III of the ecclesiastical history

Bede on Irish and Scottish Christianity

Message and discourse

The divine, kingship and the church

The immediate : the present in the ecclesiastical history

Book V : agenda and discourse

Text to context : Bede, Ceolwulf and the ecclesiastical history

From text to context

Towards conclusions.