| FB-53049-07 | Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Sharon Melissa Rowley | Reading the Old English Bede in Its Manuscript Contexts | 9/1/2007 - 8/31/2008 | $40,000.00 | Sharon | Melissa | Rowley | | | | Christopher Newport University | Newport News | VA | 23606-2949 | USA | 2006 | Medieval Studies | Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Research Programs | 40000 | 0 | 40000 | 0 |
Reading the OEB in Its Manuscript Contexts re-examines the OE version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica from a material and cultural perspective to argue that the OEB and its manuscript texts have much to tell us about a relatively inaccessible period of history, and about changes in Medieval and Early Modern English concepts of history, national identity and textual culture. In it, I examine the ways in which the translators transformed their base text, as well as how later scribes and readers continued this process of interpretation. I ask large questions by looking very closely at the text and its history; I study manuscript variants, but with a focus on the cultural context and the ideas of national identity read in and onto the OEB. |