The Times of Bede: Studies in Early English Christian Society and its HistorianISBN: 978-0-631-16655-9
Hardcover
310 pages
September 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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- A collection of studies on Bede, the greatest historian of the English Middle Ages, and the early English church
- Written over a 30-year period by one of the leading authorities on the subject.
- Integrates the religious, intellectual, political and social history of the English in their first Christian centuries.
- Looks at how Bede and other writers charted the establishment of a Christian community within a warrior society.
- An appendix considers Bede’s treatment of St. Hilda, the first great English female saint.