Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Bede’s life and works
* Features the complete extant historical works of Bede, in both English translation and the original Latin
* Concise introductions to the historical works
* Includes A. M. Sellar’s translation of Bede’s ‘The Ecclesiastical History of the English People’
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Easily locate the chapters you want to read with individual contents tables
* Includes Bede’s rare historical works and letters, first time in digital print
* Provides a special dual English and Latin text of ‘The Ecclesiastical History of the English People’, allowing readers to compare the sections chapter by chapter – ideal for students
* Features a bonus biography – discover Bede’s Anglo-Saxon world
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
CONTENTS:
The Translations
THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE
THE LIFE AND MIRACLES OF SAINT CUTHBERT, BISHOP OF LINDISFARNE
LIVES OF THE HOLY ABBOTS OF WEARMOUTH AND JARROW
THE BOOK OF THE HOLY PLACES
THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD
THE LIFE OF THE HOLY CONFESSOR SAINT FELIX
THE EXPLANATION OF THE APOCALYPSE
THE LIFE OF ST. VEDAST, BISHOP OF ARRAS
AN EPISTLE FROM BEDE TO ABBOT ALBINUS, RELATING TO HIS ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY
AN EPISTLE TO BISHOP EGBERT, CONCERNING ECCLESIASTICAL DISCIPLINE
The Latin Text
CONTENTS OF THE LATIN TEXT
The Dual Text
DUAL LATIN AND ENGLISH TEXT
The Biographies
BEDE by William Hunt
