The Old English version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica

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 AEthelbert'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

Appendix II. Forms of 'Ongolpeode' and Angelcyn' in the OEHE

Appendix III. Glosses in T

Appendix IV. Table of Glosses in T

Bibliography

Index