The Ecclesiastical History of the English NationOriginally 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details the rise and fall of tribal kings and the lives of influential bishops.Historians will find this an interesting historical document both as a record of history and as a specimen of history itself. |
Contents
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How he wrote to the Bishop of Arles to entertain them | 34 |
Pope Gregory writes to the Bishop of Arles to assist | 50 |
Augustine repairs the church of our Saviour and builds | 57 |
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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Common terms and phrases
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