The Venerable Bede: Intellectual Landscapes I: Latin Writings

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Medieval Research Centre, Univ. of Leicester

Organizer Name

Sharon M. Rowley, Peter Darby, Andreas Lemke

Organizer Affiliation

Christopher Newport Univ., Univ. of Leicester, Georg-August-Univ. Göttingen

Presider Name

Peter Darby

Paper Title 1

The Bedan Legacy: The Ways Bede’s Works Have Been Used

Presenter 1 Name

George Hardin Brown

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Stanford Univ.

Paper Title 2

The Easter Controversy and the Intellectual Background to Bede’s Scientific Exegesis

Presenter 2 Name

Eoghan Ahern

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Cambridge

Paper Title 3

Bede and the Rhetoric of Church Building

Presenter 3 Name

Deborah M. Deliyannis

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Indiana Univ.-Bloomington

Start Date

9-5-2013 10:00 AM

Session Location

Bernhard 106

Description

Bede's Latin writings had an enormous impact upon the intellectual landscape of the Middle Ages, both in his own lifetime (c. 673-735) and in the centuries after his death. This impact was felt especially strongly in Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Francia, but Bede continued to be relevant in several different contexts right through to the end of the Middle Ages. These sessions aim to explore the different intellectual contexts that either shaped or received Bede's writings. Session I will focus upon Bede's Latin writings in their contemporary contexts and their reception after Bede's death.

Sharon M. Rowley