Innovation and Tradition in the Writings of the Venerable Bede.

Front Cover -- Medieval European Studies Series Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The New Bede -- Who Did Bede Think He Was? -- Many Fathers, Few and Faint Footprints, and Rhetorical Deference -- Collegial Differences -- Reframing the Fathers -- Latin Literacy and Authorial Identity -- Bedae Vestigia Sequens -- Bede and the Ordering of Understanding -- Bede's Status and Environment -- Bede's Educative Program -- Bede's Exegetical Technique: the Earlier Years -- Bede's Mature Works: the Commentaries -- Bede's Mature Works: History and Computus -- Conclusion -- Si Naturam Quæras: Reframing Bede's "Science" -- Reframing Bede's "Science" -- Natura in Cosmological Context: De natura rerum and In Genesim 1 -- Natura in Computistical Context: De temporibus and De temporum ratione -- Ratio as Stabilitas, Regula and Ordo -- Conclusions -- The Responsibility of Auctoritas: Method and Meaning in Bede's Commentary on Genesis -- Bede's Neglected Commentary on Samuel -- Footsteps of His Own: Bede's Commentary on Ezra-Nehemiah -- Ezra-Nehemiah and the Parameters of Allegorical Interpretation -- According to the Mystical Sense: Sin and Repentance -- According to the Literal Sense: Church Reform -- Conclusion: Vestigia Bedeae -- Christ as Incarnate Wisdom in Bede's Commentary on the Song of Songs -- Bede's Originality in his Use of the Book of Wisdom in his Homilies on the Gospels -- Bede's History in a Harsher Climate -- Carolingian Perspectives on the Authority of Bede -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.

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