Articles – Page 2 – Venerabilis Beda

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…

Article. Vircillo Franklin. The Date of Composition of Bede’s De schematibus et tropis and De arte metrica. 2000.

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The Date of Composition of Bede’s De schematibus et tropis and De arte metrica. Carmela Vircillo Franklin. Among the works which Bede composed specifically as aids to the interpretation of Scripture is the Liber de schematibus et tropis, a small book on the figures of speech with which the Scriptures…

Article. Michael M. Gorman. Source Marks and Chapter Divisions in Bede’s Commentary on Luke. 2002.

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Source Marks and Chapter Divisions in Bede’s Commentary on Luke. Michael M. Gorman. While preparing his edition Josse Bade was fascinated by the fact that Bede indicated his sources by placing source marks in the margin of his commentaries on Luke and Mark, and he wondered why he could not…

Article. Alan K. Brown. Bede, a Hisperic Etymology, and Early Sea Poetry. 1975.

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Bede, a Hisperic Etymology, and Early Sea Poetry. Alan K. Brown. THE fourth chapter of Bede’s major calendrical treatise has a passage which escapes rather startlingly from its context of basic definitions of duodecimal fractions: Si in quattuor [partiri vis], quarta pars quadrantis nomen, residuae tres dodrantis accipiunt. Et huius…

Article. Harry M. Hine. Seneca and Anaxagoras in Pseudo-Bede’s De mundi celestis terrestrisque constitutione. 1988.

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Seneca and Anaxagoras in Pseudo-Bede’s De mundi celestis terrestrisque constitutione. Harry M. Hine. The De mundi celestis terrestrisque constitutione is a fascinating example of the scientific thinking that was current in the Middle Ages before the rediscovery of Greek and Arabic scientific writings. The recent edition by Charles Burnett has…