The Venerable Bede’s ‘Ecclesiastical History of the English People’ is considered to be one of the most important sources on Anglo-Saxon history, playing a key role in the development of an English national identity and establishing its author as ‘The Father of English History’. Bede was a skilled linguist and translator, and his work made the Latin and Greek writings of the early Church Fathers more accessible to his fellow Anglo-Saxons, contributing significantly to English Christianity. Delphi’s Ancient Classics series provides the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Latin texts. This eBook presents Bede’s complete extant historical works, with beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * 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 Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles 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 Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles
From the patristic age until the Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, computus -- the science of time reckoning and art of calendar construction -- was a matter of intense concern. Bede's The Reckoning of Time (De temporum ratione) was the first comprehensive treatise on this subject and the model and reference for all subsequent teaching discussion and criticism of the Christian calendar. It is a systematic exposition of the Julian solar calendar and the Paschal table of Dionysius Exiguus, with their related formulae for calculating dates. But it is more than a technical handbook. Bede sets calendar lore within a broad scientific framework and a coherent Christian concept of time, and incorporates themes as diverse as the theory of tides and the doctrine of the millennium. This translation of the full text of The Reckoning of Time includes an extensive historical introduction and a chapter-by-chapter commentary. It will interest historians of medieval science, theology, and education, Bede scholars and Anglo-Saxonists, liturgists, and Church historians. It will also serve as an accessible introduction to computus itself. Generations of medieval computists nourished their expertise in Bede's orderly presentation; modern scholars in quest of safe passage through this complex terrain can hope for no better guide.
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