February 2018 – Venerabilis Beda

Paper. Mc Carthy. Bede’s primary source for the Vulgate chronology in his chronicles in De temporibus and De temporum ratione. 2010.

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Bede’s primary source for the Vulgate chronology in his chronicles in De temporibus and De temporum ratione Daniel Mc Carthy Mommsen’s 1898 assumption that Bede had compiled the Vulgate chronology of his De temporibus and De temporum ratione has been simply reiterated by scholars ever since. But critical collation of…

Article. Richard Shaw. What Bede’s Use of Caveats Reveals about his Attitude to his Sources. 2015.

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What Bede’s Use of Caveats Reveals about his Attitude to his Sources. Richard Shaw, NMS 59. Until relatively recently Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica (HE) tended to be treated as a primary source for the events it recorded. The recognition that the work, for the most part at least, is at best…

Book Chapter. Ohashi. ‘Sexta aetas continet annos praeteritos DCCVIIII’ (Bede, De temporibus, 22): A Scribal Error? 2003.

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‘Sexta aetas continet annos praeteritos DCCVIIII’ (Bede, De temporibus, 22): A Scribal Error? Masako Ohashi During the Middle Ages the reckoning of Easter was one of the most important and difficult problems for the church, since the festival had to be fixed by following a complicated lunisolar calendar. The system…

Article. Seppo Heikkinen. The Resurrection and Afterlife of an Archaic Metre: Bede, The Carolingians and the Trochaic Septenarius. 2014.

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The Resurrection and Afterlife of an Archaic Metre: Bede, The Carolingians and the Trochaic Septenarius Seppo Heikkinen, C&M 65 The trochaic septenarius, the vernacular or Plautine form of the trochaic tetrameter catalectic, is the sole representative of the archaic forms of iambotrochaic verse discussed in Bede’s De arte metrica, and…