Bede, Bishops and Bisi of East Anglia: Questions of Chronology and Episcopal Consecration in the Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum

Author:

Platts Calum

Abstract

ABSTRACTThis article examines a contradiction in Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica between Bede’s own claims and the implications of the list of bishops in the conciliar document produced at the Synod of Hertford, concerning the date of Bisi’s consecration. Modern reconstructions of East Anglian episcopal chronology rely on Bede’s account. The article opens by considering Bede’s concern to identify episcopal consecrators, which led to the contradiction. The implications of the Synod of Hertford are then explored for dating East Anglia’s bishops and the consequent impact this has upon interpreting East Anglia’s royal chronology and the evangelization of the kingdom. This further exposes Bede’s motives for writing his history and how he constructed his narrative.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

General Arts and Humanities,History,Cultural Studies

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