Wearmouth and Jarrow: Monastic Sites

Founded by Benedict Biscop in the late 7th century, the twin monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow achieved an international reputation through the writings of Bede. Destroyed in the mid 9th century the house was refounded in the 11th and survives to thi ...

The Venerable Bede (Outstanding Christian Thinkers Series)

Many books have examined the period about which Bede wrote, but this book is concerned with Bede himself in his times. There are chapters on Bede as a monk and priest of Jarrow, as a teacher, scientist and mathematician and as a chronologist who firs ...

The World of Bede

An engaging and accessible introduction to the writings and intellectual development of the Venerable Bede (d.735), this book (originally published in 1970 and out of print for many years) is now made available again for the enjoyment of all those in ...

The World of Bede

An engaging and accessible introduction to the writings and intellectual development of the Venerable Bede (d.735), this book (originally published in 1970 and out of print for many years) is now made available again for the enjoyment of all those in ...

Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers (Routledge Key Guides)

Focussing on individuals whose ideas shaped intellectual life between 400 and 1500, "Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers" is an accessible introduction to those religious, philosophical and political concepts central to the medieval worldview. Incl ...

Bede and His World: The Jarrow Lectures, 1958-1978 / The Jarrow Lectures, 1979-1993

The figure of Bede dominates the intellectual history of the early medieval West, and it is to him, his works, and the world in which he lived that these papers are devoted. The first Jarrow lecture was in 1958, on the 1273rd anniversary of the dedic ...

Innovation and Tradition in the Writings of the Venerable Bede: 7 (Medieval European Studies 6)