The Times of Bede
Studies in Early English Christian Society and its Historian

"This collection exemplifies the high qualities of scholarship, originality and forceful expression which characterized its lamented author. All serious work on Bede and his age has to reckon with these papers!"
–James Campbell, University of Oxford

"Patrick Wormald’s research, driven for over more than thirty years by the quest to understand and assess Bede, produced work of a profound coherence and consistency. Here, then, is more than a collection of classic papers. From two parts, on Bede as a thinker who didn’t so much reflect as reinflect his world, and on the afterlife of Bede’s critique in later Anglo-Saxon England, is constructed something wondrously balanced and whole: a masterpiece of a book."
–Janet Nelson, Kings College London

Patrick Wormald (Author), Stephen Baxter (Edited by)

9780631166559, Wiley

Hardback, published 17 October 2006

310 pages
23.8 x 15.8 x 2.8 cm, 0.717 kg

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

“On display throughout … is Wormald’s considerable intellect and erudition and in the earlier essays in particular an enviable familiarity with Continental scholarship. There are also occasional flashes of the theater that was a Wormald lecture.” (Catholic Historical Review, October 2008)

Written by the late Patrick Wormald, one of the leading authorities on Bede’s life and work over a 30-year period, this book is a collection of studies on Bede and early English Christian society.

• A collection of studies on Bede, the greatest historian of the English Middle Ages, and the early English church.
• Integrates the religious, intellectual, political and social history of the English in their first Christian centuries.
• Looks at how Bede and other writers charted the establishment of a Christian community within a warrior society.
• Features the first map of all known or likely early Christian communities in England.
• Includes plans and illustrations of the finest early Christian church in England at Brixworth.
• An appendix considers Bede’s treatment of St. Hilda, the first great English female saint.

Foreword.

Editorial Note by Stephen Baxter.

Subject Areas: History [HB]