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Introduction to Historical Theology: The Venerable Bede

Class study on Church History

Attribution

Venerable Bede Guide created by Alexander Smith

Resource Guides

Religion Past and Present by Hans Dieter Betz; Don Browning; Bernd Janowski; Eberhard Jüngel
ISBN: 9004146660

Publication Date: 2014-02-03

This encyclopedia is particularly good at emphasizing the links between various theologians and theological movements (e.g., who influenced whom, etc.) It is quite comprehensive, comprising 10 volumes total.

Primary Sources

Ecclesiastical History by J. E. King (Translator); Saint Bede the Venerable
ISBN: 9780674992719

Publication Date: 1930-01-01

Vol. 1 of the Loeb Classical Edition. This is Bede's Ecclesiastical History, his most well-known work. The Loeb edition features the original Latin and the English on facing pages, which makes it easy to study.
Ecclesiastical History by J. E. King (Translator); Saint Bede the Venerable
ISBN: 9780674992733

Publication Date: 1930-01-01

Vol. 2 of the Loeb Classical Library edition. Contains the rest of Bede's Ecclesiastical History, as well as his Lives of the Abbots and Letter to Egbert.

Biographies

Bede the Venerable by George H. Brown
ISBN: 0805769404

Publication Date: 1987-04-01
The World of Bede by Peter Hunter Blair; Michael Lapidge (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0521398193

Publication Date: 1990-10-25

Other Resources

The Narrators of Barbarian History (A. D. 550-800) by Walter A. Goffart
ISBN: 0691055149

Publication Date: 1988-02-21
The Conversion of Britain by Barbara Yorke
ISBN: 0582772923

Publication Date: 2006-06-29

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