How, when and why did Bede write his Ecclesiastical history? / by Richard Shaw

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Ecclesiastical History in context -- 1.1 Why did Bede write the HE ? Modern theories and their evidence -- 1.1.1 Bede and the 'Ghost of Bishop Wilfrid' -- 1.1.2 An archbishop for York -- 1.1.3 Ecclesiastical (and moral) reform -- 1.1.4 Speculum principis -- 1.1.5 Religious and theological purposes -- 1.1.6 Other perspectives: missions, monastic competition, Canterbury, a history for the English -- 1.2 When did Bede write the History ? Previous commentary on the composition of the HE -- 1.3 How, when and, therefore, why -- Notes -- Chapter 2: The process and logistics of collecting and analysing material for the HE -- 2.1 The logistics behind the HE -- 2.2 Bede's creative process -- 2.3 'The writings of earlier writers' -- 2.3.1 Content -- 2.3.2 Genre -- 2.4 Bede's calculation table -- 2.4.1 The difficulties of Bede's dating material -- 2.4.2 The choice of incarnational dating -- 2.4.3 Earlier theories concerning Bede's table -- 2.4.4 The form of the table -- 2.4.5 Stages in producing the table -- 2.4.6 Using the table in the HE -- 2.4.7 Preserving the events column in the 5.24 annals -- 2.4.8 The influence of the table: evidence in the Moore Bede -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Bede, Canterbury and the origins of the HE -- 3.1 Nothelm, Albinus and Canterbury material for the HE -- 3.2 A pre-papal letter draft of the HE -- 3.3 The impact of the papal letters on the HE -- 3.4 A terminus antequem for the pre-letters draft of the HE : the HE and the MC 13 -- 3.5 Dating the pre-papal letters draft: the HE and the HA -- 3.6 Dating the origins of the HE : Bede, Albinus and Nothelm -- Notes -- Chapter 4: The original context for the HE : Easter and ecclesiastical authority.

4.1 Canterbury claims to ecclesiastical authority -- 4.1.1 Canterbury efforts to assert its authority -- 4.1.2 The scale of Canterbury claims and their acceptance -- 4.2 The Easter question in the 710s -- 4.3 Easter and authority in Britain and Ireland -- 4.3.1 Easter and authority: Ireland -- 4.3.2 Easter and authority: England -- 4.3.3 Bede, Nothelm, Albinus and the Letter to Nechtan -- 4.4 Easter in the HE -- 4.5 Canterbury authority in the HE -- 4.5.1 The British scope of the HE -- 4.5.2 Canterbury authority in the HE -- Notes -- Chapter 5: The HE after 731 -- 5.1 '731' as a construct -- 5.2 The draft for Ceolwulf -- 5.3 Dating the draft for Ceolwulf -- 5.3.1 Comparative dating: a delay since the first draft -- 5.3.2 Positive dating: c.732-733 -- 5.4 Further work on the HE following Ceolwulf's comments on the draft -- 5.4.1 Integrating Ceolwulf's comments on the draft -- 5.4.2 Finishing touches -- 5.4.3 Lessons from the early manuscript and textual traditions -- 5.5 Dating the last two phases: comparative and positive -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Post-731 Northumbria and the HE -- 6.1 Ceolwulf, Acca and post-731 Northumbria -- 6.2 The impact of the post-731 world on the History -- 6.2.1 Wilfrid in the HE -- 6.2.2 Lindisfarne and the 'Irish' in the HE -- 6.2.3 Other priorities for Ceolwulf: soft power and the invention of Northumbria -- 6.2.4 Bedan caution -- 6.2.5 Influencing Ceolwulf -- 6.3 Ecclesiastical reform in the Northumbrian church and the HE -- 6.3.1 Ecclesiastical reform: issues -- 6.3.2 Ecclesiastical reform in the HE and other later Bedan works -- 6.4 Elevating York to archiepiscopal status -- 6.4.1 The campaign -- 6.4.2 York in the HE -- 6.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: The HE 's shifting purposes in context -- Appendix 1: Sourcing the HE -- Key -- Book 1 -- Book 2 -- Book 3 -- Book 4 -- Book 5.

Appendix 2: Bede's Calculation Table -- Key -- Select Bibliography -- Manuscripts consulted in facsimile -- Online databases -- Primary -- Secondary -- Index.