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Bede"s ecclesiastical history of the English people

by Saint Bede the Venerable

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Published by Clarendon P. in Oxford .
Written in

    Places:
  • England
    • Subjects:
    • Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Sources,
    • Civilization, Anglo-Saxon -- Sources,
    • England -- Church history -- 449-1066 -- Sources

    • Edition Notes

      Statementedited by Bertram Colgrave and R. A. B. Mynors.
      SeriesOxford medieval texts
      ContributionsColgrave, Bertram, ed., Mynors, R. A. B. Sir, 1903- ed.
      Classifications
      LC ClassificationsBR746 .B5 1969
      The Physical Object
      Paginationlxxvi, 618 p.
      Number of Pages618
      ID Numbers
      Open LibraryOL5769645M
      ISBN 100198222025
      LC Control Number71465643

      Bede has books on Goodreads with ratings. Bede’s most popular book is Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People was completed in and still ranks among the most popular of history books. First published in , Colgrave and Mynors's edition made use for the first time of the mid-eighth-century manuscript now in Leningrad and provided a survey of the extant manuscripts and a new translation; it also brought up to date Plummer's .

      Book Review Ecclesiastical History of the English People. The Venerable Bede. or A.D. _____ Bede was born in or A.D. He himself tells us that he became a monk at an early age (7years old) and lived most of his life at Jarrow (his monastery). Get this from a library! Bede's Ecclesiastical history of the English people. [Bede, the Venerable Saint; Bertram Colgrave; R A B Mynors].

      Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, completed in , is a masterpiece of historical writing. Bede's clear narrative, his scrupulous sifting of evidence and his vigorous pursuit of information from many sources written and oral are all features which commend themselves to modern readers. The Ecclesiastical History of the English People is at once a beautiful and a helpful book, full of amusing anecdotes and life lessons, of examples of the good life and the good soul. It is a shining example that a great many have followed. But it is a history book as well. Bede the historian didn’t let tall tales get in the way of his facts.


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His Letter to Egbert gives his final reflections on the English Church just. Written in ADBede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People is the first account of Anglo-Saxon England ever written, and remains our single most valuable source for this period.

It begins with Julius Caesar's invasion in the first century BC and goes on to tell of the kings and bishops, monks and nuns who helped to develop /5(48). Ecclesiastical History of the English PeopleAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Notes to the Introduction Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People Author’s Preface: To the Most Glorious King Ceolwulf.

Book One 1. The. In Scotland: Christianity. The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede the Venerable (died ), a monk of Jarrow in Northumbria, is a first-rate source for the early Anglo-Saxon history and shows remarkable sympathy with the Celtic clergy, though Bede was a Roman monk.

Read More; views on. Colman of Lindisfarne. In Saint Colman of Lindisfarne. 24 DeGregorio, Scott, ‘ Monasticism and reform in book iv of Bede's “Ecclesiastical history of the English people ”’, this J ournal lxi (), – 25 Thacker, ‘Bede's ideal of reform’, – by: 3. The Ecclesiastical History of England examines the religious and political history of the Anglo-Saxons from the fifth century to AD.

Bede's historical survey opens with a broad outline of Roman Britain's geography and history. Bede pays special attention to the disagreement between Roman and Celtic Christians, the dates and locations of significant events in the.

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Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England is a work in Latin by Bede on the history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England generally; its main focus is on the conflict between Roman and Celtic Christianity. It is considered to be one of the most important original references on Anglo-Saxon history.

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Bede's best known work, An Ecclesiastical History of the English People, was written in Latin and is not immediately easy to understand and follow. Yet it is a key text for any student of English history. Rowan Williams shows in 5/5(2).He was a great scholar and author of many works, Ecclesiastical History of the English People being the most famous.

It is a primary source for early British history. The book starts with the Roman invasions by Julius Caesar in the first century B.C. and Claudius in the first century A.D/5(8).