Companion to Bede, A.

The Venerable Bede is a crucial figure for Anglo-Saxonists, arguably the most important, known character from the period. A scholar of international standing from an early period of the Anglo-Saxon church [c.672-732], he was the author not only of the wel.

Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 Bedeâ#x80;#x99;s Life and Times; The monastery, its founders, and its library; Bedeâ#x80;#x99;s career and works; Proximate dates of Bedeâ#x80;#x99;s works; 2 Educational Works; On the Art of Poetic Meter; On Figures of Speech and Tropes; On Orthography; Tracts on nature and time; 3 The Biblical Commentaries; COMMENTARIES ON THE OLD TESTAMENT; On Genesis; On the Resting Places of the Children of Israel; On the Tabernacle; On Samuel; On the Temple; Thirty Questions on the Book of Kings; Eight Questions; On the Song of Songs; On Isaiah 24: 22.

On the Canticle of HabakkukOn Ezra and Nehemiah; The Abbreviated Psalter; On Tobit; COMMENTARIES ON THE NEW TESTAMENT; On Luke; On Mark; On the Acts of the Apostles; On the Seven Catholic Epistles; Excerpts from Augustine on the Pauline Epistles; Commentary on the Apocalypse; BIBLICAL AIDS; 71On the Holy Places; Gazetteers; 4 Homilies, Hagiography, Martyrology, Poems, Letters; Homilies; Saintsâ#x80;#x99; Lives; Martyrology; Sacred poems; Instructional letters; 5 The Histories; The Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow; The Chronicles; The Ecclesiastical History of the Engli…