"Innovation and Tradition in the Writings of the Venerable Bede demonstrates the vitality of current scholarship and testifies to a remarkable unity-in-diversity of critical perspectives on Bede the exegete, "scientist," social reformer, and pedagogue as well as historian. The Bede who emerges from these new essays was a leading light not only of early England but of medieval European culture at large." --Christopher A. Jones, Ohio State University