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