The History of the English Church and People

The History of the English Church and People
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Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Total Pages : 448
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ISBN-10 : 0760765510
ISBN-13 : 9780760765517
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis The History of the English Church and People by : Saint Bede (the Venerable)

A Companion to Bede

A Companion to Bede
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Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages : 163
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ISBN-10 : 9780802863096
ISBN-13 : 0802863094
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis A Companion to Bede by : J. Robert Wright

The Venerable Bede's history of the Christian church in England, written in the early eighth century, still stands as a significant literary work. Translated from Latin into various other languages, Bede's fascinating history has long been widely studied. Thirteen centuries later, this thorough and reliable guide by J. Robert Wright enables today's readers to follow the major English translations of Bede's work and to understand exactly what Bede was saying, what he meant, and why his words and account remain so important. Wright'sCompanion to Bede provides the answers to most questions that careful, intelligent readers of Bede are apt to ask. Despite the countless numbers of books and articles about Bede, there is no other comprehensive companion to his text that can be read in tandem with the medieval author himself. A Giniger book

The Church History of Britain

The Church History of Britain
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Total Pages : 560
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951002020872S
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Synopsis The Church History of Britain by : Thomas Fuller

(Re-)Reading Bede

(Re-)Reading Bede
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 522
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ISBN-10 : 9781134260645
ISBN-13 : 1134260644
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis (Re-)Reading Bede by : N.J. Higham

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.

Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People

Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : 9781441177124
ISBN-13 : 1441177124
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People by : Rowan Williams

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.

The Church of England and British Politics Since 1900

The Church of England and British Politics Since 1900
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Publisher : Boydell Press
Total Pages : 368
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ISBN-10 : 1783274689
ISBN-13 : 9781783274680
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis The Church of England and British Politics Since 1900 by : Thomas Rodger

Bringing together researchers in modern British religious, political, intellectual and social history, this volume considers the persistence of the Church's public significance, despite its falling membership.

The history of the Church of Englande, etc

The history of the Church of Englande, etc
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Total Pages : 386
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:506242242
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Synopsis The history of the Church of Englande, etc by : Saint Bede (the Venerable)

The Gregorian Mission to Kent in Bede's Ecclesiastical History

The Gregorian Mission to Kent in Bede's Ecclesiastical History
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 113806081X
ISBN-13 : 9781138060814
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Synopsis The Gregorian Mission to Kent in Bede's Ecclesiastical History by : Richard Shaw

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.