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Oxford World's Classics: The Ecclesiastical History of the English People/The Greater Chronicle/Letter to Egbert

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Starting with the invasion of Julius Caesar in the fifth century, Bede recorded the history of the English up to his own day in 731 A.D. A scholarly monk working in the north-east of England, Bede wrote the five books of his history in Latin. The Ecclesiastical History is his most famouswork, and this edition provides the authoritative Colgrave translation, as well as a new translation of the Greater Chronicle, never before published in English. His Letter to Egbert gives his final reflections on the English Church just before his death. This is the only edition to include allthree texts, and they are illuminated further by a detailed introduction and explanatory notes.

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Oxford World's Classics: The Ecclesiastical History of the English People/The Greater Chronicle/Letter to Egbert, Roger Collins, Judith McClure, Beda Venerabilis

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1999
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Tytuł
Oxford World's Classics: The Ecclesiastical History of the English People/The Greater Chronicle/Letter to Egbert
Język
angielski
Rok wydania
1999
Oprawa
miękka
Liczba stron
496
ISBN10
0192838660
ISBN13
9780192838667
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Ocena
3,85 z 5
Opis
Starting with the invasion of Julius Caesar in the fifth century, Bede recorded the history of the English up to his own day in 731 A.D. A scholarly monk working in the north-east of England, Bede wrote the five books of his history in Latin. The Ecclesiastical History is his most famouswork, and this edition provides the authoritative Colgrave translation, as well as a new translation of the Greater Chronicle, never before published in English. His Letter to Egbert gives his final reflections on the English Church just before his death. This is the only edition to include allthree texts, and they are illuminated further by a detailed introduction and explanatory notes.