INNOVATION AND TRADITION IN THE WRITINGS OF THE VENERABLE BEDE

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Innovation and Tradition in the Writings of The Venerable Bede Medieval European Studies VII Patrick W. Conner, Series Editor Other Titles in the Series: Volume I Via Crucis: Essays on Early Medieval Sources and Ideas Thomas N. Hall, Editor with assistance from Thomas D. Hill and Charles D. Wright Volume II Hêliand: Text and Commentary Edited by James E. Cathey Volume III Naked Before God: Uncovering the Body in Anglo-Saxon England Edited by Benjamin C. Withers and Jonathan Wilcox Volume IV Theorizing Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture Edited by Catherine E. Karkov and Fred Orton Volume V Old English Literature in its Manuscript Context Edited by Joyce Tally Lionarons Volume VI Ancient Privileges: Beowulf, Law, and the Making of Germanic Antiquity Stefan Jurasinski Volume VII Innovation and Tradition in the Writings of the Venerable Bede Edited by Scott DeGregorio Innovation and Tradition in the Writings of The Venerable Bede Edited by Scott DeGregorio West Virginia University Press Morgantown 2006 West Virginia University Press, Morgantown 26506© 2006 by West Virginia University Press All rights reserved First edition published 2006 by West Virginia University Press Printed in the United States of America 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN 1-933202-09-2 (alk. paper) Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Innovation and Tradition in the Writings of the Venerable Bede / edited by Scott DeGregorio. p. cm. -- (Medieval European Studies ; 7) 1. Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. 2. Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500. 3. Northumbria (England : Region)--Church history. I. Title. II. DeGregorio, Scott. III. Series. IN PROCESS Library of Congress Control Number: 2005937639 Cover image: Bede writing the De temporum ratione, after an initial in a 12th-century version of De temporum ratione, Glasgow University Library Hunter T.4.2, fol. 35r (Durham Cathedral Priory S.XII1 ). To a great student of Bede, Patrick Wormald, whose camaraderie and wisdom on all things Bedan are sadly missed, this volume is dedicated ...