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Bede, the Venerable, Saint, <673-735.> |
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Titolo |
Bede's ecclesiastical history of the English people [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction and selection / / by Rowan Williams and Benedicta Ward |
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London ; ; New York, : Bloomsbury, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-13369-1 |
9786613806277 |
1-4411-7712-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (184 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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WilliamsRowan <1950-> |
WardBenedicta <1933-2022.> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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England Church history 449-1066 |
Great Britain History Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Part One; Introduction by Rowan Williams; Further reading; Part Two; Selected texts from The Ecclesiastical History of the EnglishPeople, translated by Benedicta Ward SLG; Index of Names and Places |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Bede's best known work, An Ecclesiastical History of the English People, was written in Latin and is not immediately easy to understand and follow. And yet it is a key text for any student of English history. Rowan Williams shows in his introduction how Bede works to create a sense of national destiny for the new English kingdoms of the seventh century, a sense that has helped to shape English self-awareness through the centuries, by using the imagery both of imperial Rome and of biblical Israel. But Bede also wrestles with the difficult question of how the Church relates to and serves the pol |
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