(Re-)reading Bede : an author and his audience -- Bede's persona -- Reputation and commemoration -- Bede and his audience -- The ecclesiastical history : Bede's purposes and ours -- Contemporary issues : alternative agendas -- Bede and reform -- Bede and Wilfrid -- Bede's agenda : the preface -- The recapitulation -- Structure, organisation and context -- Structure -- Chapterisation -- Bede's chronicles and the ecclesiastical history -- Book III of the ecclesiastical history -- Bede on Irish and Scottish Christianity -- Message and discourse -- The divine, kingship and the church -- The immediate : the present in the ecclesiastical history -- Book V : agenda and discourse -- Text to context : Bede, Ceolwulf and the ecclesiastical history -- From text to context -- Towards conclusions.
