"The Old English Version of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica" by aron M. Rowley

This is a study of the Old English version of Bede's masterwork, dealing with one of the most important texts to survive from Anglo-Saxon England. The subjects treated range from a detailed analysis of the manuscripts and the medieval use of them to a very satisfying conclusion that summarizes all the major issues related to the work, giving a compelling summary of the value and importance of this independent creation.

Combining an examination of the manuscript texts with a theoretically informed sense of their historical, literary and cultural contexts, this study not only analyzes traditional textual questions of variance, transmission and transformation, but also seeks to explore larger questions about the sociology of the text, the role and function of translation, and the uses of the vernacular in medieval English culture.

Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Manuscripts and Editions of the OEHE
2. Backgrounds, Contexts and the History of Scholarship
3. Gentes Names and the Question of ‘National’ Identity in the OEHE
4. Rewriting Salvation History
5. Who Read Æthelbert’s Letter? Translation, Mediation and Authority in the OEHE
6. Queen Takes Bishop: Marriage, Conversion and Papal Authority in the OEHE
7. Visions of the Otherworld: Endings, Emplacement and Mutability in History
8. Anglo-Saxon Signs of Use in Manuscripts O, C and B
9. Later-Medieval Signs of Use in Manuscripts Ca and T
Conclusion
APPENDIX I. Summary of the Chapters and Chapter-Breaks in Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica v. Chapters and Chapter-Breaks in the OEHE
Appendix II. Forms of ‘Ongolþeode’ and ‘Angelcyn’ in the OEHE
Appendix III. Glosses in T
Appendix IV. Table of Glosses
Bibliography
Index

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