Bede's ecclesiastical history of the English people : an introduction and selection / by Rowan Williams and Benedicta Ward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.

Contributor:

Williams, Rowan, 1950-

Ward, Benedicta, 1933-2022.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

England--Church history--449-1066.

England.

Great Britain--History--Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. And 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 pol

Contents:

Part One; Introduction by Rowan Williams; Further reading; Part Two; Selected texts from The Ecclesiastical History of the EnglishPeople, translated by Benedicta Ward SLG; Index of Names and Places

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-13369-1

9786613806277

1-4411-7712-4

OCLC:

799765907