The Illustrated Bede

by JohnMarsden (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1989

  $3.25

  This comprises specially-commissioned new translations from Bede's historical writings: Life of Cuthbert , Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow and his Ecclesiastical History - telling of the land and the people of an island in the Ocean , of the warlords who forged the Saxon kingdoms, and the abbots and abbesses, hermits and holy men who dominated the dawn of English Christianity. It is illustrated with photographs of historic sites and holy places associated with Bede's life and writings - from Northumberland's coastline and countryside to Columba's isle of Iona and the martyr's shrine at St Albans.

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  Paperback
  1996

  $3.46

  Renowned as the most learned man in eighth-century Europe and the author of the first English history to be written by an Englishman, the Venerable Bede was the personification of the golden age of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria. Here are specially commissioned translations from his Life of Cuthbert, his Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow, and his famous Ecclesiastical History of the English People. The large-format book is lavishly illustrated with colour photographs of manuscripts, monuments and landscapes that Bede himself would have recognized, and prefaced with illuminating introductions to the man in his time.