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Bede’s ‘Canterbury tales’
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Bede’s ‘Canterbury tales’
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Bede’s ‘Canterbury tales’ book
ByRichard Shaw
BookThe Gregorian Mission to Kent in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History
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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2018
Imprint Routledge
Pages 18
eBook ISBN 9781315162850
ABSTRACT
This Chapter discusses those passages of Bede’s account of the ‘mission fathers’ in the Historia ecclesiastica (Ecclesiastical History) whose origins were not able to be established in Chapters 2–4. Bede’s use of a set of proto-homiletic sources of a hagiographic nature, dedicated to the early bishops of Canterbury and the mission, emerges. The basic outlines of this collection are set out, and the context for their composition is described.