IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 122: Bede the Venerable and Intellectual Traditions of His Time
Monday 1 July 2013, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Russian Foundation for Humanities, Moscow |
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Organiser: | Valery Petroff, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow |
Moderator/Chair: | Maya Petrova, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow |
Paper 122-a | Bede's Eschatology and the Natural Philosophy of His Time (Language: English) Index terms: Philosophy, Science, Theology |
Paper 122-b | Preaching and Preachers in the Explanatio Apocalypsis by the Venerable Bede (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life, Social History |
Paper 122-c | The Reception of Latin Grammar Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages: Bede and Donatus (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
Abstract | The papers of the section treat the worldview of Bede the Venerable and various intellectual traditions that influenced him. The emphasis is on the teachings of Antiquity which were borrowed and transformed in the Middle Ages. Bede's accounts of Anglo-Saxon missions to the Continent are analyzed (Maria Nenarokova); the importance of natural philosophy in Bede's eschatology is discussed (Valery Petroff); the sources of Bede's De orthographi a and the dependence of the treatise on Donatus are studied (Maya Petrova). |