by Bede (Author), Bede (Author), Leo Sherley-Price (Translator), D. H. Farmer (Editor), R. E. Latham (Primary Contributor), R. E. Latham (Translator), D. H. Farmer (Translator), D. H. Farmer (Introduction)
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 Leo Sherley-Price's translation brings us an accurate and readable version, in modern English, of a unique historical document. This edition now includes Bede's Letter to Egbert concerning pastoral care in early Anglo-Saxon England, at the heart of which lay Bede's denunciation of the false monasteries; and The Death of Bede, an admirable eye-witness account by Cuthbert, monk and later Abbot of Jarrow, both translated by D. H. Farmer.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 400
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 26 Jun 1990
ISBN 10: 014044565X
ISBN 13: 9780140445657