2017
DOI: 10.1093/jts/flx126
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Royal Marriage and Conversion in Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum

Abstract: The prevailing view in modern scholarship is that Bede reduced the role of women in his narrative of Anglo-Saxon conversion, in contrast to Gregory of Tours with whom Bede is unfavourably compared. In Gregory's account of the conversion of Clovis, king of the Franks, he allowed an overt role for the king's wife, Clotild, whereas in Bede's presentation of mixed marriages between Christian queens and pagan kings his queens did not actively convert their husbands. This essay presents a counter thesis arguing that… Show more

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“…Since the 1970s, much scholarly attention has been paid to Bede's presentation of women and vastly different conclusions have been drawn. These vary from positivist approaches which saw the period as a golden age for women [14]; negative assessments which argue that Bede actively suppressed the role of women, both queens and abbesses, in his book [15,16]; and more recent studies which argue that, when Bede's HE is read alongside his far more numerous works on theology, his subtle presentation of the agency of queens in the HE becomes more apparent [17]. This article presents the preliminary results of our network analysis of Bede's HE, and our findings challenge the argument that Bede suppressed the role of women in the book.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Since the 1970s, much scholarly attention has been paid to Bede's presentation of women and vastly different conclusions have been drawn. These vary from positivist approaches which saw the period as a golden age for women [14]; negative assessments which argue that Bede actively suppressed the role of women, both queens and abbesses, in his book [15,16]; and more recent studies which argue that, when Bede's HE is read alongside his far more numerous works on theology, his subtle presentation of the agency of queens in the HE becomes more apparent [17]. This article presents the preliminary results of our network analysis of Bede's HE, and our findings challenge the argument that Bede suppressed the role of women in the book.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%