English history and Irish readers in the Frankish World
Paul J. E. Kershaw
This chapter explains the relationship between Historia of influential but resolutely static Bede and a set scholars whose physical movement defined them as peregrini, ninth-century Irish expatriate who made their careers in Carolingian world. Within that community, it focuses on one particular, Sedulius Scottus. The lives such men - 'scotti die foreign lands' self-conscious words marginal comment found manuscript Bern 363 are reminder Bede's monastic stabilitas was not only mode early medieval scholarly life. Experienced continuous piece prose, offers compressed account British history from Caesar to Augustine's mission, with noticeable slackening interest late imperial sustained moment collapse when dealing life career St Germanus.
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