Bede, Plummer, and the Letter to Nechtan: a reassessment

• Published in: Innes review Vol. 73; no. 1; pp. 31 - 67
• Main Author: Shaw, Richard
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: UK Edinburgh University Press 01.05.2022
• Subjects: Historical Studies; Monkwearmouth-Jarrow; Charles Plummer; Ceolfrith; Bede; Ecclesiastical History; Letter to Nechtan

In his Historia ecclesiastica , Bede includes a letter on the dating of Easter and the tonsure, addressed to Nechtan, king of the Picts, written in the name of Ceolfrith (died 716), abbot of Wearmouth-Jarrow. A reassessment of Charles Plummer's assertion of Bede's authorship, expounding Pl...