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Prepared for the press by Thomas Charles-Edwards, helped by Patrick Wormald and others, this book completes the new Bede, and is prefaced by a paper characteristic of Professor Wallace-Hadrill on `Bede and Plummer'. The Ecclesiastical History of the English People is considered one of the most important documents of Anglo-Saxon history and was written by Saint Bede. Wallace-Hadrill devoted the last years of his life to a new commentary, one of the finest and most mature fruits of his scholarship - more succinct than Plummer, tauter, more relevant, above all drawing together and adding to the findings of a galaxy of modern scholars.

Mynors's masterly text and textual introduction replaced much of Charles Plummer's great edition of 1896 but the historical notes did not attempt to match in scale and detail Plummer's second volume of commentary. ecclesiastical and political history of England from the time of Julius Caesar to its. In 1969 the Clarendon Press published the new edition in Oxford Medieval Texts, edited by Bertram Colgrave and Sir Roger Mynors. The Ecclesiastical History of the English People written in Believed to be written around 731. Bede was a monk and scholar in Northumbria 1 who wrote multiple works on history, exegesis, 2 hagiography. Latham (Translator), 332 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition £1.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback £9.50 10 Used from £3.00 15 New from £7. Farmer (Editor, Introduction, Translator), R. It goes on to tell of the kings and bishops, monks. Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People Introduction. Ecclesiastical History of the English People Paperback Illustrated, 26 Jun. Completed in 731, it comprises in a single flowing narrative a coherent history of the conversion of the English peoples to Christianity, and the story of the island kingdoms and churches from the 590s to the early eighth century, prefaced by a sketch of the earlier history of Britain. 731, Bedes work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britains geography and history. Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People is recognized as a masterpiece among the historical literature of medieval England and Europe. He is now often considered the father of English history for his book Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

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