{"product_id":"9780674992733","title":"Ecclesiastical History, Volume II : Books 4-5. Lives of the Abbots. Letter to Egbert by Bede","description":"Abbatial annals of medieval England.   Bede  \"the Venerable,\" English theologian and historian, was born in AD 672  or 673 in the territory of the single monastery at Wearmouth and Jarrow.  He was ordained deacon (691-2) and priest (702-3) of the monastery,  where his whole life was spent in devotion, choral singing, study,  teaching, discussion, and writing. Besides Latin he knew Greek and  possibly Hebrew.   Bede's theological works were chiefly  commentaries, mostly allegorical in method, based with acknowledgment on  Jerome, Augustine, Ambrose, Gregory, and others, but bearing his own  personality. In another class were works on grammar and one on natural  phenomena; special interest in the vexed question of Easter led him to  write about the calendar and chronology. But his most admired production  is his Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation. Here a  clear and simple style united with descriptive powers to produce an  elegant work, and the facts diligently collected from good sources make  it a valuable account. Historical also are his Lives of the Abbots of his monastery, the less successful accounts (in verse and prose) of Cuthbert, and the Letter (November 734) to Egbert his pupil, so important for our knowledge about the Church in Northumbria.   The Loeb Classical Library edition of Bede's historical works is in two volumes.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56293055922549,"sku":"9780674992733","price":24.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780674992733.jpg?v=1762754460","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780674992733","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}