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The Saintly Female Body and the Landscape of Foundation in Anglo-Saxon Barking By Lisa M.C. Weston Medieval Feminist Forum, Vol. 43 (2007) Introduction: Toward the end of the seventh century an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman named Ethelburga became the first abbess of a new monastery. Her foundation of what would become known as Barking Abbey – and […]
In his chronologies, Bede sought to order the events of Christian history, but the primary motive and purpose of his calculations centered on a different, and persistently vexatious, problem in ecclesiastical timing—the reckoning of Easter.
Order Our Days In Thy Peace: Treatments of Conflict in Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum By Caitlin Callaghan PhD Dissertation, Cornell University, 2009 Abstract: This dissertation concerns the following question: why and how does Bede minimize conflict in his Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum? As this thesis will attempt to demonstrate, the answer to this question […]
The Eccentric Hermit-Bishop:Bede, Cuthbert, and Farne Island Aggeler, Christian Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 16 (1999) Abstract Cuthbert, the renowned saint of early Anglo-Saxon Northumbria, enjoyed a multifaceted career. After submitting to monastic discipline as a young man, he became successively a prior, a hermit, and a bishop. Modern historians have struggled to explain how, […]
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