Chapters – Venerabilis Beda

Quote. Concannon. A discrepancy between Bede and Abbot Hilduin’s Historia Dionysii. 2017.

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In the summer of 1121, Peter Abelard, the great medieval philosopher and theologian, could not catch a break. In March, he had been rebuked at the Council of Soissons, which required that his book On the Divine Unity and Trinity be burned and that he make a public proclamation of…

Book chapter. Bequette. The Six Ages of History and the Renewal of the Human Person: Christian Humanism in Bede’s Gospel Homilies. 2016.

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The Six Ages of History and the Renewal of the Human Person: Christian Humanism in Bede’s Gospel Homilies John P. Bequette in ‘A Companion to Medieval Christian Humanism’, pp. 40-61. Brill, 2016. The Venerable Bede (673–735) personified the monastic intellectual culture of the early Middle Ages. His pedagogical works provided…

Book chapter. Ferrand. The Hydrologic Cycle In Bede’s De Natura Rerum. 2009.

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The Hydrologic Cycle In Bede’s De Natura Rerum in The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance, pp. 361-380. Brill, Technology and Change in History, Volume 11, 2009. Author: Lin Ferrand It is generally believed that Bede wrote his secular treatise De natura…

Book Chapter. Ohashi. ‘Sexta aetas continet annos praeteritos DCCVIIII’ (Bede, De temporibus, 22): A Scribal Error? 2003.

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‘Sexta aetas continet annos praeteritos DCCVIIII’ (Bede, De temporibus, 22): A Scribal Error? Masako Ohashi During the Middle Ages the reckoning of Easter was one of the most important and difficult problems for the church, since the festival had to be fixed by following a complicated lunisolar calendar. The system…