Bede's sources for his references to 'hides' in theEcclesiastical Historyand theHistory of the Abbots

A comprehensive analysis of Bede's references to ‘hides’ provides insights into his sources. Bede's references are of two different types, revealing two different kinds of sources, which might most simply be termed ‘charter type’ and ‘tribute type’. Examining the first set reveals that in writing the Historia Ecclesiastica and especially the Historia Abbatum, Bede had access to documentary sources, some of the language of which is probably preserved in his works. In the absence of separately surviving Northumbrian charters, these elements give hints about the nature and content of such texts. The second group, the ‘tribute type’, points to Bede's possession of a document along the lines of the ‘Tribal hidage’, probably originating in one of the periods of Northumbrian hegemony in the mid seventh century

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• Celt and Saxon

  C Warren Hollister, Kenneth Jackson•The American Historical Review•1963

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• The Tribal Hidage

  Open Access•W J Corbett•Transactions of the Royal…•1900

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• Kinship, Status and the Origins of the Hide

  T M Charles-Edwards, Т Μ Charles-Edwards•Past & Present•1972

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