IMC 2025: Sessions

Session 705: Translated Texts for Historians at 40, III: Bede at Work

Sponsor:	University of Liverpool
Organiser:	Marios Costambeys, Department of History, University of Liverpool
Moderator/Chair:	Marios Costambeys, Department of History, University of Liverpool
Respondent:	Faith Wallis, Department of History & Classical Studies / Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University
Paper 705-a	Echoes of Epistolary Situations in the Letters of Bede (Language: English) Peter Darby, Department of History, University of Nottingham Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Learning (The Classical Inheritance)
Paper 705-b	Bede Second-Guessing Himself, from Luke to Mark (Language: English) Rosalind Love, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge Index terms: Biblical Studies, Ecclesiastical History
Paper 705-c	Pliny, Isidore, and Bede (Language: English) Eoghan Ahern, Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Learning (The Classical Inheritance)
Abstract	Marking the 40th anniversary of a series that includes the largest selection of Bedan translations in print, this session features three papers that discuss Bede’s praxis. We examine the cross-fertilisation between his own works as well as the debt he owed to other canonical authors. A response to the papers will feature the reflections of the most prominent current translator of Bede’s oeuvre.