Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People

700 Pages·1969·43.59 MB·English, Latin

by  Bede, Beda Venerabilis, Bertram Colgrave, Roger A. B. Mynors (eds., transl.)

Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English
People was completed in 731 and still
ranks among the most popular of histor,
books. By the end of the eighth century
copies of it were to be found in many
parts of England and on the Continent,
some of these being still extant. If it
were not for Bede’s history we should
know little about the Anglo-Saxon inva­
sion and the beginnings of Christianity
in England, and such familiar names as
Edwin and Oswald, Cuthbert and Chad,
Hilda and Caedmon would be almost
forgotten. The present edition makes use
for the first time of the mid-eighth century
manuscript now in Leningrad, provides
a survey of the extant manuscripts, and
a new translation; it also attempts to
bring up to date Plummer’s invaluable
edition published seventy years ago.

OXFORD MEDIEVAL TEXTS
General Editors
V. H. GALBRAITH R.A.B. MYNORS
C. N. L. BROOKE
B E D E ’ S
E C C L E S I A S T I C A L
H I S T O R Y

BEDE’S
ECCLESIASTICA L
HISTORY
OF THE
ENGLISH PEOPLE
EDITED BY
BERTRAM COLGRAVE
AND
R. A. B. MYNORS
OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1969
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