Bede and Benedict Biscop. Additional Note The original version of this paper was rightly criticized for grossly overloaded annotation, both by my then teacher, MichaelWallace-Hadrill, and subsequently by Professor Goffart, ‘Bede and the Ghost of Bishop Wilfrid’, p. 315; there is correspondingly little to be said for seriously expanding the…

Bede and Benedict Biscop. NOTES 1 Citations of Bede’s HE, HA and the anonymous VC are from Plummer; of Bede’s homily on Biscop (Hom.) from Bedae Opera Homiletica, ed. D. Hurst (CCSL cxxii (III)) 13, pp. 88–94 (opening quotation, p. 93 lines 165–7). The accounts of Bede and the Anonymous…

Bede and Benedict Biscop ‘We are his sons, if we hold by imitation to the path of his virtues, and if we do not turn listlessly aside from the regular course that he has charted.’ These are words from the homily for the dies natalis of Benedict Biscop, in which…