Book Launch: Bede and Time by Maírín MacCarron

Bede and Time is published in the Routledge series Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland and provides the first integrated analysis of Bede’s thought on time. This approach allows for a greater understanding of Bede’s writings on time, and illuminates the place of time and chronology in his other works, including his creation of Anno Domini-dating as a historical chronology in his most famous work, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People. My book argues that in innovatively combining computus, theology and history, Bede transformed his contemporaries’ understanding of time and chronology.

About the Author:

Máirín MacCarron is Lecturer in Digital Humanities at University College Cork, having previously worked in the Dept of History at the University of Sheffield and held the NUI/Dr Garret FitzGerald postdoctoral fellowship at NUI Galway. She is Co-Investigator of the Leverhulme Trust-funded project, ‘Women, Conflict and Peace: Gendered Networks in Early Medieval Narratives’.