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

March 10, 2019 Books Chapters No Comments
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…

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

October 23, 2018 Articles No Comments
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.

October 15, 2018 Articles No Comments
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. Laistner. Source-Marks in Bede Manuscripts. 1933.

October 14, 2018 Articles No Comments
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…