Ecclesiastical history of the English people : with Bede's letter to Egbert and Cuthbert's letter on the death of Bede / Bede ; the History translated by Leo Sherley-Price ; revised by R.E. Latham ; translation of the minor works, new introduction and notes by D.H. Farmer
- Bib ID:
- 8124232
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735, author
- Uniform Title:
- Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. English
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Description:
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- London : Penguin Books, 1990
- ©1990
- 397 pages ; maps ; 20 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780140445657 (paperback)
- 014044565X (paperback)
- Series:
- Penguin classics
- Summary:
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Written in AD 731, Bede's work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain's geography and history. It goes on to tell of the kings and bishops, monks and nuns who helped to develop Anglo-Saxon government and religion during the crucial formative years of the English people. Leo Sherley-Price's translation brings us an accurate and readable version, in modern English, of a unique historical document. This edition now includes Bede's Letter to Egbert concerning pastoral care in early Anglo-Saxon England, at the heart of which lay Bede's denunciation of the false monasteries; and The Death of Bede, an admirable eye-witness account by Cuthbert, monk and later Abbot of Jarrow, both translated by D. H. Farmer.
- Full contents:
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- Bede's ecclesiastical history of the English people
- Bede's letter to Egbert
- Cuthbert's letter on the death of Bede.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- 'the History translated by Leo Sherley-Price, revised by R.E. Latham. Translation of the minor works, new introduction and notes by D.H. Farmer'.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 383) and index.
- Translated from the Latin.
- Self-Renewing, 2018
- Donated by Mr. John Withell, April 2019.
- Subject:
- Genre/Form:
- Church history
- Other authors/contributors:
- Also Titled:
- Previous edition entitled: Bede's ecclesiastical history of the English people
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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