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Bede's Ecclesiastical History Of England
Author
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735; Sellar, A. M. [Translator]
Bede's Ecclesiastical History Of England
Historical account of Christianity in England from Roman times to 731 AD, covering early missionaries, conversion of Anglo-Saxons, and establishment of monasteries, by Venerable Bede, a 7th-century English monk and scholar.
- Contents
- Editor's Preface
- Errata
- Book I
- Book I - Chap. Xii. How The Britons, Being Ravaged By The Scots And Picts, Sought Succour From The Romans, Who Coming A Second Time, Built A Wall Across The Island; But When This Was Broken Down At Once By The Aforesaid Enemies, They Were Reduced To Greater Distress Than Before.
- Book I - Chap. Xxiii. How The Holy Pope Gregory Sent Augustine, With Other Monks, To Preach To The English Nation, And Encouraged Them By A Letter Of Exhortation, Not To Desist From Their Labour. [596 A.d.]
- Book I - Chap. Xxviii. How Pope Gregory Wrote To The Bishop Of Arles To Help Augustine In The Work Of God. [601 A.d.]
- Book Ii
- Book Ii - Chap. V. How, After The Death Of The Kings Ethelbert And Sabert, Their Successors Restored Idolatry; For Which Reason, Both Mellitus And Justus Departed Out Of Britain. [616 A.d.]
- Book Ii - Chap. Xii. How Edwin Was Persuaded To Believe By A Vision Which He Had Once Seen When He Was In Exile. [Circ. 616 A.d.]
- Book Ii - Chap. Xx. How Edwin Being Slain, Paulinus Returned Into Kent, And Had The Bishopric Of Rochester Conferred Upon Him. [633 A.d.]
- Book Iii
- Book Iii - Chap. Ix. How Miracles Of Healing Have Been Frequently Wrought In The Place Where King Oswald Was Killed; And How, First, A Traveller's Horse Was Restored And Afterwards A Young Girl Cured Of The Palsy. [642 A.d.]
- Book Iii - Chap. Xviii. Of The Life And Death Of The Religious King Sigbert. [Circ. 631 A.d.]
- Book Iii - Chap. Xxv. How The Question Arose About The Due Time Of Keeping Easter, With Those That Came Out Of Scotland.454[664 A.d.]
- Book Iii - Chap. Xxx. How The East Saxons, During A Pestilence, Returned To Idolatry, But Were Soon Brought Back From Their Error By The Zeal Of Bishop Jaruman. [665 A.d.]
- Book Iv
- Book Iv - Chap. Vi. How Wynfrid Being Deposed, Sexwulf Received His Bishopric, And Earconwald Was Made Bishop Of The East Saxons. [675 A.d.]
- Book Iv - Chap. Xv. How King Caedwalla, King Of The Gewissae, Having Slain Ethelwalch, Wasted That Province With Cruel Slaughter And Devastation. [685 A.d.]
- Book Iv - Chap. Xxiii. Of The Life And Death Of The Abbess Hilda. [614-680 A.d.]
- Book Iv - Chap. Xxvii. How Cuthbert, A Man Of God, Was Made Bishop; And How He Lived And Taught Whilst Still In The Monastic Life. [685 A.d.]
- Book V
- Book V - Chap. X. How Wilbrord, Preaching In Frisland, Converted Many To Christ; And How His Two Companions, The Hewalds, Suffered Martyrdom. [690 A.d.]
- Book V - Chap. Xvi. The Account Given In The Aforesaid Book Of The Place Of Our Lord's Nativity, Passion, And Resurrection.
- Book V - Chap. Xx. How Albinus Succeeded To The Godly Abbot Hadrian, And Acca To Bishop Wilfrid. [709 A.d.]
- Book V - Chap. Xxii. How The Monks Of Hii, And The Monasteries Subject To Them, Began To Celebrate The Canonical Easter At The Preaching Of Egbert. [716 A.d.]
- Continuation
- Index
- Footnotes
Author
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735; Sellar, A. M. [Translator]