The Age of Bede. Bede: Life of Cuthbert; Eddius Stephanus:Life of Wilfrid; Bede:Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth And Jarrow, with the Voyage of ... "Life of Wilfrid" and Other Works (Classics) - Softcover

Farmer, D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140444378 ISBN 13: 9780140444377

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1983

Synopsis

This selection of writings from the sixth and seventh century AD provides a powerful insight into the early history of the Christian Church in England and Ireland. From Bede's Life of Cuthbert and Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow to the anonymous Voyage of St Brendan - a whimsical mixture of fact and fantasy that describes a quest for paradise on earth - these are vivid accounts of the profoundly spiritual and passionately heroic lives of Christian pioneers and saints. Both vital religious writings and a revealing insight into the reality of life at a formative time for the church, they describe an era of heroism and bitter conflict, and the rapid spread of the Christian faith.

About this title

About the Author:

Bede (c. 672 or 673 – May 25, 735), was a Benedictine monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow (see Wearmouth-Jarrow), both in the English county of Durham (now Tyne and Wear). He is well known as an author and scholar, and his most famous work, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People) gained him the title "The father of English history".

J.F. Webb is a priest of the Roman diocese of Wrexham, North Wales.

D.H. Farmer was Reader in History at Reading University until 1988. He is author and editor of several books on ecclesiastical and monastic history such as The Oxford Dictionary of Saints.

Synopsis:

Depicts the lives of English and Irish saints during the sixth and seventh centuries and describes the early history of the Christian Church.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0140444378
• ISBN 13: 9780140444377
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 256