IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 1201: Bede: Intellectual Landscapes, V - Medieval and Modern Reactions to Bede
Wednesday 3 July 2013, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Medieval Research Centre, University of Leicester |
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Organisers: | Peter Darby, School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester Máirín MacCarron, Department of History, National University of Ireland, Galway |
Moderator/Chair: | Sharon Rowley, Department of English, Christopher Newport University, Virginia |
Paper 1201-a | Subverting Bede: Gerald of Wales’s Topographia Hibernica and Its Response to the Historia Ecclesiastica on Ireland and the Irish (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin |
Paper 1201-b | A Biography of Bede: Problems and Perspectives (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin |
Paper 1201-c | The Skull of Bede (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Abstract | This strand explores the cultural and intellectual contexts that shaped the production or reception of Bede's works. Session V explores how medieval and modern audiences have reacted to Bede and his oeuvre: paper -a (Scully) examines how and why Gerald of Wales’s Topographia Hibernica subverted Bede’s positive representation of Ireland and the Irish in the Ecclesiastical History; paper -b (Foot) discusses the historiographical challenges arising from a project to write a major new biography of Bede; paper -c (Story) recounts the fascinating recent discovery of a cast of Bede's skull. |