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Book The History of the English Church and People

Download or read book The History of the English Church and People written by Saint Bede (the Venerable) and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bede and the Conversion of England

Download or read book Bede and the Conversion of England written by Patrick Wormald and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Christians and Pagans

    Book Details:
  • Author : Malcolm D. Lambert
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2010-06-29
  • ISBN : 0300168268
  • Pages : 489 pages

Download or read book Christians and Pagans written by Malcolm D. Lambert and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Christians and Pagans" offers a comprehensive and highly readable account of the coming of Christianity to Britain, its coexistence or conflict with paganism, and its impact on the lives of both indigenous islanders and invading Anglo-Saxons.The Christianity of Roman Britain, so often treated in isolation, is here deftly integrated with the history of the British churches of the Celtic world, and with the histories of Ireland, Iona, and Pictland. Combining chronicle and literary evidence with the fruits of the latest archaeological research, Malcolm Lambert illuminates how the conversion process changed the hearts and minds of early Britain.

Book  Re  Reading Bede

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  • Author : N.J. Higham
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2006-11-22
  • ISBN : 1134260644
  • Pages : 522 pages

Download or read book Re Reading Bede written by N.J. Higham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bede's Ecclesiastical History is the most important single source for early medieval English history. Without it, we would be able to say very little about the conversion of the English to Christianity, or the nature of England before the Viking Age. Bede wrote for his contemporaries, not for a later audience, and it is only by an examination of the work itself that we can assess how best to approach it as a historical source. N.J. Higham shows, through a close reading of the text, what light the Ecclesiastical History throws on the history of the period and especially on those characters from seventh- and early eighth-century England whom Bede either heroized, such as his own bishop, Acca, and kings Oswald and Edwin, or villainized, most obviously the British king Cædwalla but also Oswiu, Oswald's brother. In (Re-)Reading Bede, N.J. Higham offers a fresh approach to how we should engage with this great work of history. He focuses particularly on Bede's purposes in writing it, its internal structure, the political and social context in which it was composed and the cultural values it betrays, remembering always that our own approach to Bede has been influenced to a very great extent by the various ways in which he has been both used, as a source, and commemorated, as man and saint, across the last 1,300 years.

Book The Old English Version of Bede s Historia Ecclesiastica

Download or read book The Old English Version of Bede s Historia Ecclesiastica written by Sharon M. Rowley and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneering examination of the Old English version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica and its reception in the middle ages, from a theoretically informed, multi-disciplinary perspective. The first full-length study of the Old English version of Bede's masterwork, dealing with one of the most important texts to survive from Anglo-Saxon England. The subjects treated range from a detailed analysis of the manuscriptsand the medieval use of them to a very satisfying conclusion that summarizes all the major issues related to the work, giving a compelling summary of the value and importance of this independent creation. Dr Rowley convincingly argues that the Old English version is not an inferior imitation of Bede's work, but represents an intelligent reworking of the text for a later generation. An exhaustive study and a major scholarly contribution. GEORGE HARDIN BROWN, Professor of English emeritus, Stanford University. The Old English version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum is one of the earliest and most substantial surviving works of Old English prose. Translated anonymously around the end of the ninth or beginning of the tenth century, the text, which is substantially shorter than Bede's original, was well known and actively used in medieval England, and was highly influential.However, despite its importance, it has been little studied. In this first book on the subject, the author places the work in its manuscript context, arguing that the text was an independent, ecclesiastical translation, thoughtfully revised for its new audience. Rather than looking back on the age of Bede from the perspective of a king centralizing power and building a community by recalling a glorious English past, the Old English version of Bede's Historia transforms its source to focus on local history, key Anglo-Saxon saints, and their miracles. The author argues that its reading reflects an ecclesiastical setting more than a political one, with uses more hagiographical than royal; and that rather than being used as a class-book or crib, it functioned as a resource for vernacular preaching, as a corpus of vernacular saints' lives, for oral performance, and episcopal authority. Sharon M. Rowley is Associate Professor of English at Christopher Newport University.

Book Bede s Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation  A new translation by     L  Gidley

Download or read book Bede s Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation A new translation by L Gidley written by Saint Bede (the Venerable) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Times of Bede

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  • Author : Patrick Wormald
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2008-04-15
  • ISBN : 0470692650
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book The Times of Bede written by Patrick Wormald and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the late Patrick Wormald, one of the leading authorities on Bede’s life and work over a 30-year period, this book is a collection of studies on Bede and early English Christian society. A collection of studies on Bede, the greatest historian of the English Middle Ages, and the early English church. Integrates the religious, intellectual, political and social history of the English in their first Christian centuries. Looks at how Bede and other writers charted the establishment of a Christian community within a warrior society. Features the first map of all known or likely early Christian communities in England. Includes plans and illustrations of the finest early Christian church in England at Brixworth. An appendix considers Bede’s treatment of St. Hilda, the first great English female saint.

Book St Augustine and the Conversion of England

Download or read book St Augustine and the Conversion of England written by Richard Gameson and published by Alan Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mission of St Augustine of Canterbury and the subsequent conversion of the pagan Anglo-Saxons to Christianity had dramatic political, social and cultural implications as well as religious ones. The arrival of St Augustine in 597AD redefined England's relations with the continent on one hand and with the Celtic lands on the other; it led to new social mores; it added a new dimension to the political organization of the land; and it imported new forms of culture, notably book production and manuscript illumination.

Book The Complete Works of Venerable Bede  Commentaries on the Scriptures

Download or read book The Complete Works of Venerable Bede Commentaries on the Scriptures written by Saint Bede (the Venerable) and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bede s Ecclesiastical History of England  1907

Download or read book Bede s Ecclesiastical History of England 1907 written by Saint Bede and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Book The Conversion of Britain

Download or read book The Conversion of Britain written by Barbara Yorke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Britain of 600-800 AD was populated by four distinct peoples; the British, Picts, Irish and Anglo-Saxons. They spoke 3 different languages, Gaelic, Brittonic and Old English, and lived in a diverse cultural environment. In 600 the British and the Irish were already Christians. In contrast the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons and Picts occurred somewhat later, at the end of the 6th and during the 7th century. Religion was one of the ways through which cultural difference was expressed, and the rulers of different areas of Britain dictated the nature of the dominant religion in areas under their control. This book uses the Conversion and the Christianisation of the different peoples of Britainas a framework through which to explore the workings of their political systems and the structures of their society. Because Christianity adapted to and affected the existing religious beliefs and social norms wherever it was introduced, it’s the perfect medium through which to study various aspects of society that are difficult to study by any other means.

Book The Conversion of England

Download or read book The Conversion of England written by Charles Forbes comte de Montalembert and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Conversion of England  Being a Sequel to The Monks of the West  Etc

Download or read book The Conversion of England Being a Sequel to The Monks of the West Etc written by Charles Forbes comte de Montalembert and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gregorian Mission to Kent in Bede s Ecclesiastical History

Download or read book The Gregorian Mission to Kent in Bede s Ecclesiastical History written by Richard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What material lay behind Bede's narrative in his Ecclesiastical History? What were his sources and were they primary or secondary? This book represents the first systematic attempt to answers these questions, taking as a test case the coherent narrative of the Gregorian mission and the early church in Kent. Through this critique the book is able to catalogue Bede's sources and assess their origins, provenance and value. The striking paucity of Bede's primary sources for the period emerges clearly. This study explains the reason why this was the case. At the same time, Bede is shown to have had access to a greater variety of sources, especially documentary, than has previously been realised.

Book Coming of Christianity to Anglo Saxon England

Download or read book Coming of Christianity to Anglo Saxon England written by Henry Mayr-Harting and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bede s Ecclesiastical History of England

Download or read book Bede s Ecclesiastical History of England written by Saint Bede (the Venerable) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: