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Bede

Bede

Author · 25 books

Saint Bede (672/673 - 735), referred to as Venerable Bede (Latin: Bēda Venerābilis) for over a thousand years before being canonized, was an English monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow (see Monkwearmouth-Jarrow), both in the Kingdom of Northumbria. He is well known as an author and scholar, and his most famous work, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People) gained him the title "The Father of English History.” In 1899, Bede was made a Doctor of the Church by Pope Leo XIII, a position of theological significance; he is the only native of Great Britain to achieve this designation (Anselm of Canterbury, also a Doctor of the Church, was originally from Italy). Bede was moreover a skilled linguist and translator, and his work with the Latin and Greek writings of the early Church Fathers contributed significantly to English Christianity, making the writings much more accessible to his fellow Anglo-Saxons. Bede's monastery had access to a superb library which included works by Eusebius and Orosius among many others.

Series

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Cistercian Studies Series

Series · 38 books

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Series · 78 books

Books

'On the Nature of Things' and 'On Times'

2011

Bede

The Reckoning of Time

1999

Bede's Life of Saint Cuthbert

2014

Commentary on the Seven Catholic Epistles

1985

Complete Historical Works of the Venerable Bede

2009

Ecclesiastical History of the English People

731

Ecclesiastical History of the English People

With Bede's Letter to Egbert and Cuthbert's Letter on the Death of Bede

2003

Ecclesiastical History, Volume 1, Books I-III

731

Histoire ecclésiastique du peuple anglais, tome I. Livres I-II

Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum

2005

Histoire ecclésiastique du peuple anglais, tome II. Livres III-IV

Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum

2005

Histoire ecclésiastique du peuple anglais, tome III. Livre V

Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum

2005

Homilies on the Gospels

Lent to the Dedication of the Church (Book Two)

1991

Life of Saint Æthelthryth

950

Lives of the Saints

1965

On the Valiant Woman

2014

The Abbreviated Psalter of the Venerable Bede

2001

The Age of Bede

1965

The Age of Bede

Bede's "Life of St.Cuthbert", Eddius Stephanus' "Life of Wilfrid" and Other Works (Classics) by unknown (1983) Mass Market Paperback

2026

The Commentary on the Seven Catholic Epistles of Bede the Venerable

1985

The Ecclesiastical History of the English People/The Greater Chronicle/Letter to Egbert

1994

The Explanation of the Apocalypse

2013

The Life and Miracles of St. Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindesfarne

2011

The Venerable Bede Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles

1989

Two Lives of Saint Cuthbert

A Life by an Anonymous Monk of Lindisfarne and Bede's Prose Life

1985

Venerabilis Baedae Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, Historia abbatum ... 1881 [Leather Bound]

2013