Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People

Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People

Author: Rowan Williams

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2012-06-21

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1441177124

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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.


A Companion to Bede

A Companion to Bede

Author: J. Robert Wright

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2008-08-15

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 0802863094

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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


The History of the English People, 1000-1154

The History of the English People, 1000-1154

Author: Henry (of Huntingdon)

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780192840752

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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.


The Seven Books of History Against the Pagans

The Seven Books of History Against the Pagans

Author: Paulus Orosius

Publisher: CUA Press

Published: 2010-04

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 0813211506

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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.


The Ecclesiastical History of the English People

The Ecclesiastical History of the English People

Author: Saint Bede (the Venerable)

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780192838667

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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.