Articles – Venerabilis Beda

Article. Callahan. Ademar of Chabannes and his insertions into Bede’s Expositio Actuum Apostolorum. 1993.

May 16, 2019 Articles No Comments

Ademar of Chabannes and his insertions into Bede’s Expositio Actuum Apostolorum. Daniel F. Callahan The historical origins of St. Martial and his cult are very different from what is presented in the Aurelian Vita. He seems, at least according to Gregory of Tours in both The History of the Franks…

Article. Bullough. York, Bede’s Calendar and a Pre-Bedan English Martyrology.

May 10, 2019 Articles No Comments

York, Bede’s Calendar and a Pre-Bedan English Martyrology. Donald A. Bullough. Compared with his contemporary, Paul the Deacon, Alcuin seems not to have been very interested in buildings or in the physical environment of his public activities. The substantial corpus of letters, written from St. Martin’s, Tours, in the last…

Article. Meyvaert. Discovering the Calendar (Annalis Libellus) Attached to Bede’s Own Copy of De Temporum Ratione. 2002.

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Discovering the Calendar (Annalis Libellus) Attached to Bede’s Own Copy of de Temporum Ratione. Paul Meyvaert. Perplexity concerning statements made by Charles Jones about this calendar, one in 1943, the other in 1980, engendered my own interest in it. In a note to chapter 14 of his 1943 edition of…

Article. Armstrong. Holy Queens as Agents of Christianization in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History: a Reconsideration. 1998.

October 23, 2018 Articles No Comments

Holy Queens as Agents of Christianization in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History: a Reconsideration. Dorsey Armstrong. The Venerable Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People contains numerous accounts of what has been termed by some scholars “conversion by marriage,” episodes in which a royal bride acts as the first agent of Christianity…

Article. Ruby Davis. Bede’s Early Reading. 1933.

October 15, 2018 Articles No Comments

Bede’s Early Reading. Ruby Davis. APPARENTLY there is no adequate list of the books that helped to make Bede the foremost scholar of his day in Western Europe, a man in whom ‘the whole learning of his age seemed to be summed up.’ Plummer, it is true, gives a ‘stately’…

Article. Sutcliffe. The Venerable Bede’s Knowledge Of Hebrew. 1935.

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The Venerable Bede’s Knowledge Of Hebrew. E. F. Sutcliffe. The question with which this short paper is concerned is this, Had the Venerable Bede in addition to his knowledge of Latin and Greek acquired a knowledge of Hebrew? There have not been wanting writers to affirm it. Roger Bacon, who…

Article. Sutcliffe. Quotations In The Ven. Bede’s Commentary on S. Mark. 1926.

October 15, 2018 Articles No Comments

QUOTATIONS IN THE VEN. BEDE’S COMMENTARY ON S. MARK E. F. Sutcliffe In a recent number of this review I had occasion to refer to a passage in which the Ven. Bede explains the system he adopted to indicate the Fathers whose words he quotes in his commentaries. He tells…