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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…

Online Article. Shari Boodts. Augustine among the Angels: The Venerable Bede’s impressive resume. 2018.

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Bede conceived of and executed what one scholar called ‘the most ambitious and carefully planned program of Biblical commentary since Late Antiquity’. Bede composed commentaries on a large number of Bible books, both Old and New Testament. While most of these combine Bede’s original writing with numerous quotations from the…

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

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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…

Book. Venerabilis Bedae presbyteri De temporibus, siue, De sex aetatibus huius seculi liber incipit. 1509.

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Venerabilis Bedae presbyteri De temporibus, siue, De sex aetatibus huius seculi liber incipit. P. Victoris De regionibus urbis Rome libellus aureus. 1509. Author Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735; Victor, Publius. Publication date 1509 Topics World history, Chronology, Historical, Names, Geographical Publisher Impressum Vene[tiae] : P[er] Ioan. de Tridino alias Tacuino…

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

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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…

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…