Bede is the inaugural volume in the Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture series, which seeks to comprehensively map British literary culture from 500 to 1100 CE. This volume presents four texts, or fascicles, dedicated to the Venerable Bede (d. 735), theologian and author of the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. Articles provide a wealth of information on Bede through manuscript evidence, medieval library catalogs, citations, and quotations. Using discussions of source relationships, the entries weigh and consider different interpretations of Bede’s works and suggest possibilities for future research. Part of an exciting new reference series, this book and those that follow will be indispensable to anyone interested in the history and literature of the period.
This volume is the first publication in the series Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture, a long-standing collaborative project by numerous scholars to map the sources which influenced the literary culture of Anglo-Saxon England. It aims at a comprehensive, descriptive list of all authors and works known in Britain between c. 500 and c. 1100 CE. It is intended to update Ogilvy's Books Known to the English. Each collection of articles is grouped thematically. Readers will find information on manuscript evidence, medieval library catalogues, Anglo-Latin and Old English versions, citations, quotations, and direct references to authors and works under appropriate subject headings. An international team of editors and contributors has written entries for this project, which received substantial funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities in its initial phases.
