{"product_id":"ecclesiastical-history-volume-ii","title":"Ecclesiastical History, Volume II","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbbatial annals of medieval England.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBede  “the Venerable,” English theologian and historian, was born in AD 672  or 673 in the territory of the single monastery at Wearmouth and Jarrow.  He was ordained deacon (691–2) and priest (702–3) of the monastery,  where his whole life was spent in devotion, choral singing, study,  teaching, discussion, and writing. Besides Latin he knew Greek and  possibly Hebrew.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBede’s theological works were chiefly  commentaries, mostly allegorical in method, based with acknowledgment on  Jerome, Augustine, Ambrose, Gregory, and others, but bearing his own  personality. In another class were works on grammar and one on natural  phenomena; special interest in the vexed question of Easter led him to  write about the calendar and chronology. But his most admired production  is his \u003ci\u003eEcclesiastical History of the English Nation\u003c\/i\u003e. Here a  clear and simple style united with descriptive powers to produce an  elegant work, and the facts diligently collected from good sources make  it a valuable account. Historical also are his \u003ci\u003eLives of the Abbots\u003c\/i\u003e of his monastery, the less successful accounts (in verse and prose) of Cuthbert, and the \u003ci\u003eLetter \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eto Egbert\u003c\/i\u003e his pupil (November 734), so important for our knowledge about the Church in Northumbria.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Loeb Classical Library edition of Bede’s historical works is in two volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54254493270360,"sku":"9780674992733","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780674992733_1b152770-1a37-4194-bf60-757388585d02.jpg?v=1779336026","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/ecclesiastical-history-volume-ii","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}