Bede (673-735)

    Ecclesiastical History: Text (Latin, and Translations)
  • Bede, the Venerable. Venerabilis Baedae Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum, Historiam abbatum, Epistolam ad Ecgberctum, una cum Historia abbatum. Ed. Charles Plummer. 2 vols [repr. in one]. Oxford: Clarendon, 1896.
  • ___________. Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. Bede's ecclesiastical history of the English people. Ed. Bertram Colgrave and R. A. B. Mynors. Oxford medieval texts. Oxford, Clarendon P., 1969. [Parallel Latin text and English translation with English notes. Bibliography: pp. xi-xiv.]
  • ___________. Bedae Opera Historica. Tr. J. E. King. 2 vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1930.
  • ___________. Bede's Ecclesiatical History of the English Nation. Trans. J. Stevens, rev. J.A. Giles, notes by L.C.Jane, Intro. by David Knowles. London: Dent, 1963.
  • The Old English Version of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Ed. Thomas Miller. EETS OS 95, 96, 110, 111. London: , 1890-98.
    Bede and His World
  • Brown, George Hardin. Bede, the Venerable. Boston: Twayne, 1987.
  • Blair, Peter Hunter. The World of Bede. London: Secker and Warburg, 1970.
  • ___________. Northumbria in the days of Bede. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976.
  • The Age of Bede. Translated by J.F. Webb; edited with an introduction by D.H. Farmer; Lives of the abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow translated by D.H. Farmer. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England; New York, N.Y.: Penguin, 1983.
    This is a rev. ed. of Lives of the saints, 1965. Includes bibliographical references and index. Life of Cuthbert by Bede; Life of Wilfrid by Eddius Stephanus; Lives of the abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow; The voyage of St. Brendan.
  • Anglo-Latin in the context of old English literature: a special session from the program of the Old English Division at the 1982 Modern Language Association Annual Meeting. Edited with a foreword by Paul E. Szarmach. [Binghamton, N.Y.]: Published for the Old English Division of the Modern Language Association of America by the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, SUNY-Binghamton, 1983.
    CONTAINS: "The age of Bede," by George H. Brown; "The age of Alfred," by Allen J. Frantzen; "The age of Aelfric," by Colin Chase.
  • Bede and Anglo-Saxon England: papers in honour of the 1300th anniversary of the birth of Bede, given at Cornell University in 1973 and 1974. Edited by Robert T. Farrell. London : British Archaeological Reports, 1978.
    The Story of Caedmon
  • Wrenn, C.L. "The Poetry of Caedmon." Proceedings of the British Academy 32 (1996): 277-95; reprinted in Jess B. Bessinger, ed. Essential Articles for the study of Old English poetry. Hamden: Archon, 1968. 407-27.

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