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Ecclesiastical history of the English people with Bede's letter to Egbert and Cuthbert's letter on the death of Bede / Bede.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Latin Series: Penguin classicsPublication details: London, England ; New York, New York, USA : Penguin, 1990.Edition: Rev. edDescription: 397 p. : maps ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 014044565X
  • 9780140445657
Uniform titles:
  • Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. English
Contained works:
  • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. Epistola ad Ecgberctum
  • Cuthbert, Abbot of Wearmouth Epistola Cuthberti de obitu Bedae
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 274.2 B411 Available 33111006459412
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 Leo Sherley-Price's translation brings us an accurate and readable version, in modern English, of a unique historical document.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.

"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 (p. 383) and index.

Translated from the Latin.

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