The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation

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Cosimo, Inc., Oct 1, 2007 - Religion - 388 pages
Originally written in 731 and published in English in 1903 in a translation by LIONEL CECIL JANE (1879-1932), The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation was the first book of its kind. In it, British Benedictine monk SAINT BEDE (672-735) details the history of England from the time of Caesar until the year of its writing.Assembled using a variety of Roman sources, including Prosper of Acquitaine and Pope Gregory I, this astonishing work resounds of true scholarly diligence: Bede cited his references throughout his work, and used personal accounts only with skepticism.Bede's history covers the wars between the Britons, Scots, and Picts; the conquest of England by the Romans; and the conversion of the Britons, the Scots, and the Saxons. Bede also details the rise and fall of tribal kings and the lives of influential bishops.Historians will find this an interesting historical document both as a record of history and as a specimen of history itself.

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How the priest Wighard was sent from Britain to Rome
158
CHAP PAGE
164
A little boy dying in the same monastery called upon
176
Hedda succeeds Eleutherius in the bishopric of the West
182
King Cadwalla having slain Ethelwalch king of the West
188
How Queen Etheldrida always preserved her virginity
194
How a certain captives chains fell off when masses were
199
There was in the same monastery a brother on whom the gift
205

Ethelfrid king of the Northumbrians having vanquished
58
How St Augustine made Mellitus and Justus bishops
68
Laurentius being reproved by the apostle converts King
74
King Edwin is persuaded to believe by a vision which
87
The province of the East Angles receives the faith
94
How the aforesaid Honorius first and afterwards John
99
The same King Oswald asking a bishop of the Scottish
106
VII
112
X
118
On the death of Paulinus
124
of the life and death of the religious King Sigebert
131
How the East Saxons again received the Faith which they
138
How the controversy arose about the due time of keeping
146
Colman being worsted returned home Tuda succeeded
152
of the death of the kings Egfrid and Lothere A D 684
212
St Cuthbert foretold to the anchorite Herebert that
218
BOOK V
224
VI
230
How the venerable Swidbert in Britain and Wilbrord
239
of another who before his death saw a book containing
246
The account given by the aforesaid book of the place
252
Albinus succeeded to the religious Abbat Hadrian and Acca
263
The monks of Hii and the monasteries subject to them
276
THE LIFE AND MIRACLES OF ST CUTHBERT
286
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