The World of Bede [Hardcover]

Peter Hunter Blair (Author), Michael Lapidge (Foreword)

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Hardcover: 356 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Reprint edition (Oct 26 1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521391385
ISBN-13: 978-0521391382
Product Dimensions: 1.4 x 2.2 x 0.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 540 g

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"In the foreword, Michael Lapidge, who supervised the reprinting, says, 'Hunter Blair's book stands up well to the passage of time: being concerned with Bede himself and not with the industry of Bede scholarship.' Anyone (such as this reviewer) who read this book twenty years ago and who has just returned to it will agree....This remains a fine book." Joseph F. Kelly, Church History

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The World of Bede is an engaging and accessible introduction to the writings and intellectual development of the venerable Bede (d. 735), first historian of the English and one of the greatest scholars of the Middle Ages. Originally published in 1970 and out of print for many years, the book remains a minor classic of historical writing, now made available again for the enjoyment of all those interested in the early medieval world. A new preface and supplementary bibliography by Michael Lapidge have brought the book up to date.

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'Bede, a servant of Christ and priest of the monastery of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul, which is in Wearmouth and Jarrow...' Bede so described himself near the end of what he regarded as the last of his major works, The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation. Read the first page

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5.0 out of 5 stars A very enjoyable read about the remarkable Dark Age scholar., May 3 2000

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This reprint of the 1970 classic provides a very accessible introduction into the intellectual background and writings of the venerable Bede. It is based on the written history of Bede and his times and mentions but does not rely on archealogical evidence to support its description of this early flowering of enlightenment in a dark time.

The text has held up well in the past 30 years and it provides great insight into the history of the English as Bede knew it, Bede's intellectual environment in which he wrote his works on various topics, and, of course, on the history of the church in England.

It reads as a tour guide book to the physical and mental territory in which Bede lived and wrote. Not too hagiographic - but it does assume at least a passing familiarity with Bede's more famous works.

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