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1. Introduction: An Early Medieval Historian at Work 1.1 Recent work on Bede and the Historia ecclesiastica 1.2 Bede?fs methods and materials: the need for a systematic analysis 1.3 The implications of this study 1.4 The structure of this study 1.5 Methodology 1.6 Bede the historian 1.7 Bede?fs introduction to his own sources in the HE Preface PART ONE Constructing the Narrative of the Gregorian Mission to Kent 2. Gregory and the Mission: HE 1.23-33 3. The Mission Fathers: HE 2.1-11; 15-20 4. Canterbury before Theodore: HE 3.8; 3.14; 3.20; 3.29; 4.1 PART TWO Bede?fs Sources for Kent before Theodore 5. Bede?fs Sources Reconstructed 5.1 Political 5.1.1 King lists 5.1.2 Genealogies 5.1.3 The context for the preservation and maintenance of Bede?fs king lists and genealogies 5.1.4 ?eHegemon list?f document 5.1.5 ?eHidage document?f of the ?etribute?f type 5.1.6 Kentish laws 5.2 Ecclesiastical 5.2.1 Episcopal Lists 5.2.2 The origins of Bede?fs episcopal lists 5.2.3 Inscriptions from (re-)foundation stones 5.2.4 Epitaphs 5.2.5 Ecclesiastical correspondence 5.3 ?eLiterary?f and other written sources 5.4 Oral information 5.5 Bede?fs Canterbury sources 5.6 Conclusions: the disappearance of ?eCanterbury tradition?f 6. Bede?fs ?eCanterbury Tales?f 6.1 The unexplained sections of the Gregorian mission narrative 6.2 Characteristics of the ?eCanterbury tales?f 6.3 The shape and content of Bede?fs ?eCanterbury tales?f 6.4 Nature of the ?eCanterbury tales?f 6.5 Dating the ?eCanterbury tales?f 6.6 Conclusions 7. Conclusion: Bede?fs Methods and Ours Bibliography