IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 501: Bede: Intellectual Landscapes, I - Bede's Intellectual Inheritance
Tuesday 2 July 2013, 09.00-10.30
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: | Peter Darby, School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester |
Paper 501-a | Bede and the Exegetical Application of Classical Scientific Learning (Language: English) Index terms: Science, Theology |
Paper 501-b | Bede and Cassiodorus (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Theology |
Paper 501-c | Notes on a Scandal: Bede and Gregory of Tours on Women in the Religious Life at Coldingham and Poitiers (Language: English) Index terms: Theology, Women's Studies |
Abstract | This strand explores the intellectual contexts that shaped the production or reception of Bede's works. Session I focusses upon the intellectual landscapes of Late Antiquity and the Classical World: paper -a (Ahern) considers Bede's use of ancient geographical and cosmological texts in his exegetical writings; paper -b (Thacker) explores the impact that the writings of Cassiodorus had upon Bede; paper -c (Coughlan) uses a well-known passage from the historical writings of Gregory of Tours to inform our understanding of an important episode in Bede's Ecclesiastical History. |