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    <![CDATA[Ecclesiastical History of the English People]]>
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    <![CDATA[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 Leo Sherley-Price's translation brings us an accurate and readable version, in modern English, of a unique historical document.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.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1930</published>
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    <![CDATA[The Age of Bede]]>
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    <![CDATA[This selection of writings from the sixth and seventh century AD provides a powerful insight into the early history of the Christian Church in England and Ireland. From Bede's Life of Cuthbert and Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow to the anonymous Voyage of St Brendan a whimsical mixture of fact and fantasy that describes a quest for paradise on earth these are vivid accounts of the profoundly spiritual and passionately heroic lives of Christian pioneers and saints. Both vital religious writings and a revealing insight into the reality of life at a formative time for the church, they describe an era of heroism and bitter conflict, and the rapid spread of the Christian faith.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Three Northumbrian Poems: Caedmon's Hymn, Bede's Death Song, and the Leiden Riddle]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1978</published>
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    <![CDATA[A History of the English Church and People]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1970</published>
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    <![CDATA[Ecclesiastical History of England]]>
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    <![CDATA[For historian, this is indeed is a valuable resource in pursuit of our extensive Christian Heritage.   It is believed that Bede wrote this book while he was in his early 60 s, which have been around 730 A.D.   Divided into six books amount to just over 300 pages, this work covers the history of England, ecclesiastical and political, from the time of Julius Caesar to the date of its completion 731. The first twenty-one chapters, covering the period before the mission of Augustine, Prosper of Aquitaine, the letters of Pope Gregory I, and others, with the insertion of legends and traditions.  This compilation is similar to other historical writing from this period and maintains a lower degree of objectivity than modern historical writings. It is a mixture of fact, legend, and literature.   The History of the English Church and People has a clear polemical and didactic purpose. Bede sets out, not just to tell the story of the English, but also to advance his views on politics and religion. In political terms, he is a partisan of his native Northumbria, amplifying its role in English history over and above that of Mercia, its great southern rival. He takes greater pains in describing events of the seventh century, when Northumbria was the dominant Anglo-Saxon power, than the eighth, when it was not. The only criticism he ventures regarding his native Northumbria comes in writing about the death of King Ecgfrith in fighting the Picts at Nechtansmere in 685.  Bede attributes this defeat to God's vengeance for the Northumbrian attack on the Irish in the previous year. Although Bede is loyal to Northumbria, he shows an even greater attachment to the Irish and the Irish Celtic missionaries, whom he considers to be far more effective and dedicated than their complacent English counterparts.  His final preoccupation is over the precise date of Easter, which he writes about at length. It is here, and only here, that he ventures some criticism of St Cuthbert and the Irish missionaries, who celebrated the event, according to Bede, at the wrong time. In the end, he is pleased to note that the Irish Church was saved from error by accepting the correct date for Easter.  This work is an asset to any library, avid historian, and serious lecturer on the topic.]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Bro Smith SGS]]></name>
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    <![CDATA[Venerable Bede Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles (Cistercian Studies Series , No 117)]]>
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    <![CDATA[Bede: On Ezra and Nehemiah]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;The Venerable Bede&#8217;s <em>In Ezram et Neemiam </em>is the first and only complete commentary written on the biblical books of Ezra and Nehemiah in the patristic or later medieval era. This is the first English translation of Bede&#8217;s text, and in it he emerges as a daring innovator, an author who used the stories of Ezra and Nehemiah to explore the pastoral and secular crises of his own day. <br/> <br/>Translator Scott DeGregorio makes Bede's work both accessible to the layperson and illuminating for the specialist. This edition includes annotations dealing with textual, historical, and religious issues; a comprehensive introduction that places the text in the backdrop of Bede's eighth-century Northumbrian community; two appendices; and a bibliography.&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[Bede: The Reckoning of Time]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;From the patristic age until the Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, computus &#8211; the science of time reckoning and art of calendar construction &#8211; was a subject of intense concern to medieval people. Bede&#8217;s <em>The Reckoning of Time (De temporum ratione)</em> was the first comprehensive treatise on this subject, and the model and reference for all subsequent teaching, discussion and criticism of the Christian calendar. <em>The Reckoning of Time</em> is a systematic exposition of the Julian solar calendar and the Paschal table of Dionysius Exiguus, with their related formulae for calculating dates. But it is more than a technical handbook. Bede sets calendar lore within a broad scientific framework and a coherent Christian concept of time, and incorporates themes as diverse as the theory of tides and the threat of chiliasm. This translation of the full text includes an extensive historical introduction and a chapter-by-chapter commentary. <em>The Reckoning of Time</em> also serves as an accessible introduction to the computus itself.&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1999</published>
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    <![CDATA[Bede: On the Temple]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;Bede&#8217;s aim in <em>De Templo</em> is stated in Chapter I: &quot;That the building of the tabernacle and the temple signifies one and the same Church of Christ&quot;. For anyone with an interest in mysticism or merely desiring spiritual nourishment, the reading of<em> De Templo</em> should prove a sublime experience and its own reward. This classic in Latin by an English saint is here made available in English for the first time since it was written nearly 1300 years ago.&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1996</published>
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    <![CDATA[Baedae Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum]]>
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