Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum 1475
By Saint Bede the Venerable, Thomas Miller, J. A. Giles, Bertram Colgrave, Roger Mynors
- Anglo-Saxons, Church history, Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, Early works to 1800
An accurate and readable version of Bede's work in modern English where "we realize even more clearly that the past is not dead and done with, but a force to be reckoned with, silently moulding the present and the future." [Introduction].
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About the book
- First published
- 1475
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- in Officina Birckmannica sumptibus Arnoldi Mylij, Dutton, Oxford University Press
- Editions
- 122
- Language
- und, German, French, mul
- ISBN
- 9780192829122
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