Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1955
ISBN-13:9780140440423ISBN:0140440429
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Description: Acceptable. Book is in good reading condition. Cover has wear at edges and corners, and may have creases. Spine has wear at edges and creases. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1955
ISBN-13:9780140440423ISBN:0140440429
Description: Very Good. Reader's crease on spine. Very light cover edge wear. Interior tanned. Some checkmarks in the text. No creases. Nice copy. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1955-05-30
ISBN-13:9780140440423ISBN:0140440429
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Viking Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1968
ISBN-13:9780140440423ISBN:0140440429
Description: Very Good. 12mo 0140440429 Mass Market Paperback very good clean copy, firm binding, may have some age discoloration, minimal cover wear. read more
Description: Very Good. 341 pages; Very Good condition. Reading creases. Outside page edges are age tanning. Just a tiny bit of shelf rub on edges. Solid, clean. Literature. Translated by Leo Sherley-Price. read more
"A classic that you will have to read at some time if you're an educated person. Bede is the original model for what we call a historian -- he cites his sources, and uses a variety of sources, and he uses a narrative style is his writing. Bede popularized the BC/AD dating system (something that everyone in the liberal arts can be eternally grateful for), and his writing is actually pretty darn readable. He focuses a bit much on magical thinking and the lives of the saints, treating hagiography (writing on the saints) as a bit too literal of a subject, which makes me wonder how discerning he truly was about his facts... but that's a personal qualm, and wouldn't be acknowledged in the historian community. The best thing about this book is that Bede's chapter headings are really detailed, and the chapters themselves are really short, both of which make finding and researching info in Bede's book REALLY easy. I recommend it."
"Not being much one for history or religion, I had been worried that the book would be boring, but it turned out to be fascinating. It's amazing how many cliches and common turns of phrase we use today were being bandied about over 1200 years ago. It is also incredible what a violent patchwork of warring foreign tribes England (and the rest of Britain)was even that recently."
Pope Gregory directed Augustine to preach to the English nation on Christianity, which had fallen by the wayside in England after many bloody civil wars and latterly the leaving of their allies and benefactors, the Romans. On reaching Britain Augustine met with King Ethelbert, who reigned over Kent. King Ethelbert, after listening to the preachings of Augustine, says the following (according to Bede):
"Your words and promises are fair indeed, but they are new and uncertain, and I cannot accept them and abandon the age-old beliefs that I have held, together with the whole English nation. But since you have travelled far, and I can see you are sincere in your desire to impart to us what you believe to be true and excellent, we will not harm you. We will receive you hospitably and take care to supply you with all that you need; nor will we forbid you to preach and win any people you can to your religion."
Oh, how I wish for more tolerance of this sort today! I am an agnostic, but this seems kind and fair. You go about your business and I'll go about mine.
I read this book in 1982 and obviously this passage struck a huge chord with me, as I wrote it out in my Books notebook."
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