Author: Saint Bede (the Venerable)Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN: 9780760765517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
A Companion to Bede
Author: J. Robert WrightPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802863094
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
The Venerable Bede's history of the Christian church in England, written in the early eighth century, still stands as a significant literary work. Translated from Latin into various other languages, Bede's fascinating history has long been widely studied. Thirteen centuries later, this thorough and reliable guide by J. Robert Wright enables today's readers to follow the major English translations of Bede's work and to understand exactly what Bede was saying, what he meant, and why his words and account remain so important. Wright'sCompanion to Bede provides the answers to most questions that careful, intelligent readers of Bede are apt to ask. Despite the countless numbers of books and articles about Bede, there is no other comprehensive companion to his text that can be read in tandem with the medieval author himself. A Giniger book
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Author: Rowan WilliamsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441177124
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede is a key work for historians, church historians and intelligent lay readers. Here is the perfect introduction. 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 his introduction how Bede works to create a sense of national destiny for the new English kingdoms of the seventh century, a sense that has helped to shape English self-awareness through the centuries, by using the imagery both of imperial Rome and of biblical Israel. But Bede also wrestles with the difficult question of how the Church relates to and serves the political order. The attraction and fascination of his work is partly in seeing the tension between the strategic use of wealth and political power for religious ends and the example of self-effacing service and simplicity of life offered by some of Bede's greatest Christian heroes. The issues around these questions are not academic or antiquarian. Understanding Bede is a key to understanding British society in the present as well as the past.
Author: Saint Bede (the Venerable)The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Author: Saint Bede (the Venerable)Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192838667
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Bede's most famous work, this edition includes includes a translation of "The Greater Chronicle", in which Bede examines the Roman Empire and contemporary Europe. His "Letter to Egbert" gives his final reflections on the English Church just before his death.
The History of the English People, 1000-1154
Author: Henry (of Huntingdon)Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192840752
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Henry of Huntingdon's narrative covers one of the most exciting and bloody periods in English history: the Norman Conquest and its aftermath. He tells of the decline of the Old English kingdom, the victory of the Normans at the Battle of Hastings, and the establishment of Norman rule. His accounts of the kings who reigned during his lifetime--William II, Henry I, and Stephen--contain unique descriptions of people and events. Henry tells how promiscuity, greed, treachery, and cruelty produced a series of disasters, rebellions, and wars. Interwoven with memorable and vivid battle-scenes are anecdotes of court life, the death and murder of nobles, and the first written record of Cnut and the waves and the death of Henry I from a surfeit of lampreys. Diana Greenway's translation of her definitive Latin text has been revised for this edition.
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England
Author: The Venerable Saint BedePublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England" by The Venerable Saint Bede. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Seven Books of History Against the Pagans
Author: Paulus OrosiusPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813211506
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This work is valuable as history, containing as it does contemporary information on the period after 278 A.D. It was used widely during the Middle Ages, and the existence today of nearly 200 manuscript copies is evidence of its past popularity.
Author: Elie HalévyThe Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Author: The Venerable BedePublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486145484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
This masterpiece of medieval historical literature chronicles the growth of Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England. Written by a monk in AD 731, it profiles prominent individuals in the formation of the country's religion and government.
