October 2018 – Venerabilis Beda

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

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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.

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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.

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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…

Article. Rosenthal. Bede’s Ecclesiastical History and the Material Conditions of Anglo-Saxon Life. 1979.

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Bede’s Ecclesiastical History and the Material Conditions of Anglo-Saxon Life Joel T. Rosenthal The author of the Ecclesiastical History of the English People was the greatest historian writing in the West between the later Roman Empire and the twelfth century, when we come to William of Malmesbury, Otto of Freising,…

Article. Laistner. Source-Marks in Bede Manuscripts. 1933.

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SOURCE-MARKS IN BEDE MANUSCRIPTS M. L. W. LAISTNER In the preface to his commentary on St Mark the Venerable Bede makes the following request to posterity: – And I humbly pray the reader that, if he should deem these works of ours worthy of copying, he should also carefully preserve…

Article. Whitbread. The Sources and Literary Qualities of Bede’s Doomsday Verses. 1966.

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The Sources and Literary Qualities of Bede’s Doomsday Verses. L. Whitbread. The short poem usually styled ‘Versus de die iudicii’, a distinctive account in hexameters of doomsday and its sequel, can only be reckoned a minor work of Bede. It achieved however a remarkably wide and lasting popularity in later…