Historia ecclesiastica – Venerabilis Beda

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. Richard Shaw. What Bede’s Use of Caveats Reveals about his Attitude to his Sources. 2015.

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What Bede’s Use of Caveats Reveals about his Attitude to his Sources. Richard Shaw, NMS 59. Until relatively recently Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica (HE) tended to be treated as a primary source for the events it recorded. The recognition that the work, for the most part at least, is at best…

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…

Article. Grant Loomis. The Miracle Traditions of the Venerable Bede. 1946.

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The Miracle Traditions of the Venerable Bede C. Grant Loomis Speculum, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Oct., 1946), pp. 404-418 The cult of the miraculous was well established in the Christian writing of Europe by the end of the sixth century, although the flourishing period for legends, the full-length biographies of…

Article. O’Donnell. Bede’s Strategy in Paraphrasing “Cædmon’s Hymn”. 2004.

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Bede’s Strategy in Paraphrasing “Cædmon’s Hymn” Daniel Paul O’Donnell The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 103, No. 4 (Oct., 2004), pp. 417-432 In Book 4, Chapter 24 of the Historia ecclesiastica, Bede provides a Latin translation of Cædmon’s first song: Nunc laudare debemus auctorem regni caelestis, potentiam Creatoris…