Author
Bede
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Published
December 1919
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Author
Bede
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Published
December 1919
£17.94
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Ecclesiastical History
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Bede 'the Venerable, ' English theologian and historian, was born in 672 or 673 CE in the territory of the single monastery at Wearmouth and Jarrow. He was ordained deacon (691-2) and priest (702-3) of the monastery, where his whole life was spent in devotion, choral singing, study, teaching, discussion, and writing. Besides Latin he knew Greek and possibly Hebrew.
Bede's theological works were chiefly commentaries, mostly allegorical in method, based with acknowledgment on Jerome, Augustine, Ambrose, Gregory, and others, but bearing his own personality. In another class were works on grammar and one on natural phenomena; special interest in the vexed question of Easter led him to write about the calendar and chronology. But his most admired production is his "Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation." Here a clear and simple style united with descriptive powers to produce an elegant work, and the facts diligently collected from good sources make it a valuable account.
Historical also are his "Lives of the Abbots" of his monastery, the less successful accounts (in verse and prose) of Cuthbert, and the "Letter" (November 734) "to Egbert" his pupil, so important for our knowledge about the Church in Northumbria.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Bede's historical works is in two volumes.
Author
Bede
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Published
December 1919
Weight
336g
Page Count
540
Dimensions
119 x 168 x 31 mm
ISBN
9780674992719
ISBN-10
0674992717
Eden Code
1192783
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Author/Creator: Bede
ISBN: 9780674992719
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date: December 1919
Weight: 336g
Dimensions: 119 x 168 x 31 mm
Eden Code: 1192783