Charles W. Jones and Wesley Stevens
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
368
1994
Charles W Jones edited both literary and scientific works of Bede and he traced their sources from Egypt Roman Africa and Italy through Spain Gaul and Ireland to the library of his monastery at Jarrow. In these studies Jones analyses Bede?s use of those sources for creating and explaining the European calendar which despite later adjustments still regulates modern consciousness of time. Included also are his analysis of Bede?s Commentary on Genesis and the entire text of Bedae Pseudepigrapha (long out of print) in which the false attributions of numerous scientific works in the Patrologicia Latine are corrected. He found many manuscripts of these texts and dated them and identified their sources. His work stands as a remarkable contribution to understanding Anglo-Saxon schools history culture and scientific knowledge as well as Anglo-Saxon influence on the continent.
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
368
1994
Charles W Jones edited both literary and scientific works of Bede and he traced their sources from Egypt Roman Africa and Italy through Spain Gaul and Ireland to the library of his monastery at Jarrow. In these studies Jones analyses Bede?s use of those sources for creating and explaining the European calendar which despite later adjustments still regulates modern consciousness of time. Included also are his analysis of Bede?s Commentary on Genesis and the entire text of Bedae Pseudepigrapha (long out of print) in which the false attributions of numerous scientific works in the Patrologicia Latine are corrected. He found many manuscripts of these texts and dated them and identified their sources. His work stands as a remarkable contribution to understanding Anglo-Saxon schools history culture and scientific knowledge as well as Anglo-Saxon influence on the continent.