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Ecclesiastical History of the English People by the Venerable Saint Bede
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Written in AD 731, Bede's work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain's geography and history. It goes on to tell of the kings and bishops, monks and nuns who helped to develop Anglo-Saxon government and religion during the crucial formative years of the English people. Leo Sherley-Price's tran ...Show more
Eusebius Ecclesiastical History Bks 6-10 by J. E. L. Oulton; Saint Bede the Venerable; Eusebius
Category: Religion | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Eusebius of Caesarea, ca. 260-340 CE, born in Palestine, was a student of the presbyter Pamphilus whom he loyally supported during Diocletian's persecution. He was himself imprisoned in Egypt, but became Bishop of Caesarea about 314. At the Council of Nicaea in 325 he sat by the emperor, led a party of ...Show more
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Saint Bede the Venerable; A. M. Sellar (Translator)
Category: Non-Fiction
The venerable Bede (AD 672-735) was not the first historian of the British Isles, but he was the first to to list and master his documentary and oral sources. For a man who travelled little, he showed a great depth of understanding about the outside world, informing himself by commissioning others to co ...Show more
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