02585nam 2200577 a 450 991082169890332120230802005458.01-282-13369-197866138062771-4411-7712-4(CKB)2550000000107504(EBL)967739(OCoLC)799765907(SSID)ssj0000736475(PQKBManifestationID)12280810(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000736475(PQKBWorkID)10768086(PQKB)10348579(MiAaPQ)EBC967739(Au-PeEL)EBL967739(CaPaEBR)ebr10579562(CaONFJC)MIL380627(EXLCZ)99255000000010750420120723d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBede's ecclesiastical history of the English people an introduction and selection /by Rowan Williams and Benedicta WardLondon ;New York Bloomsbury20121 online resource (184 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4411-2354-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 PlacesBede'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 polEnglandChurch history449-1066Great BritainHistoryAnglo-Saxon period, 449-1066274.2/02274.202Bedethe Venerable, Saint,673-735.157888Williams Rowan1950-519228Ward Benedicta1933-2022.1607829MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821698903321Bede's ecclesiastical history of the English people3934256UNINA