Book, Chapter

 1        0, Pref|          the Historical Works of Bede, it might seem superfluous,
 2        0, Int |   Introduction to his edition of Bede’s Historical Works. He has
 3        0, Int |    century (the century in which Bede died), the Moore MS. and
 4        0, Int |       cannot be far removed from Bede’s autograph. We are thus
 5        0, Int |         published his edition of Bede’s Historical Works, the
 6        0, Int |       based." For the student of Bede this admirable book is of
 7        0, Int |       and sincerely by Venerable Bede, so called in all Christendom
 8        0, Int |        in the collected works of Bede, edited by Dr. Giles. In
 9        0, Int |           The sources from which Bede draws his material are briefly
10        0, Int | Northumbria, as is natural, that Bede’s information is most varied
11        0, Int |         I.— In Book I, cc. 1-22, Bede sketches the early history
12        0, Int |          history of Northumbria, Bede tells us of the death of
13        0, Int |        composed in her honour by Bede. The war between Mercia
14        0, Int |        Abbot of St. Augustine’s. Bede’s friend, Acca, succeeds
15        0, Int |        in 731, the year in which Bede finished the History. The
16        0, Life|                          LIFE OF BEDE~Few lives afford less material
17        0, Life|          for the biographer than Bede’s; few seem to possess a
18        0, Life|      even at an earlier age than Bede’s. We may compare the story
19        0, Life|           at Barking, related by Bede, and of Elfied, the daughter
20        0, Life|      monk" who set about writing Bede’s epitaph, and being unable
21        0, Life|        Another account tells how Bede, in his old age, when his
22        0, Life|  responded "Amen, very venerable Bede."~The land on which Bede
23        0, Life|         Bede."~The land on which Bede was born was granted by
24        0, Life|          time after the birth of Bede. Wearmouth was founded in
25        0, Life|       674, Jarrow in 681 or 682. Bede was among those members
26        0, Life|        his birth as late as 677. Bede himself tells us that he
27        0, Life|    generally been supposed to be Bede.~In the "Ecclesiastical
28        0, Life|          there is an allusion to Bede’s teachers, one of whom,
29        0, Life|          by Abbot Ceolfrid. Here Bede acquired that wide and varied
30        0, Life|        no mention of the name of Bede. If such an event had ever
31        0, Life|          they not say, ‘Where is Bede?’"~It is probably here,
32        0, Life|      give a unity to the life of Bede and preserve him from the
33        0, Life|       there can be no doubt that Bede took the utmost pains to
34        0, Life|         us of the personality of Bede, a personality never obtruded,
35        0, Life|        The lofty spirituality of Bede, his great learning and
36        0, Life|          new Cathedral, those of Bede were found with them. Not
37        0, Life|        for our father and master Bede, beloved of God. Wherefore
38        0, Life|          the death of our father Bede, said that they had never
39        I, I   |         Editors note: By Scythia Bede means Scandinavia. He only
40        I, IV  |        Pope between 171 and 177. Bede’s chronology is therefore
41        V, XXIV|         the help of the Lord, I, Bede, the servant of Christ,
42        V, XXIV|        face.~The Continuation of Bede.~(ie a continuation of the
43        V, XXIV|         the annotated history of Bede, written by a later hand,
44        V, XXIV|   Plummer believes were added by Bede himself.)~IN the year 731
45        V, XXIV|          bishops; and the priest Bede died.~In the year 737, an