Author: Saint Bede (the Venerable)
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN: 9780760765517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Author: Jeremy Collier
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 660

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Author: Jeremy Collier
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 794

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Author: Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 658

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Author: Rowan Williams
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441177124
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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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.

Author: Saint Bede (the Venerable)
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Category : Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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Author: N.J. Higham
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134260644
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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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.

Author: Thomas Fuller
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Author: Saint Bede (the Venerable)
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630

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