Category: History - British
Chap. I. Of the Situation of Britain and Ireland, and of their ancient inhabitants. Chap. II. How Caius Julius Caesar was the first Roman that came into Britain. Chap. III. How Claudius, the second of the Romans who came into Britain, brought the islands Orcades into subjectio...
The venerable Ethelwald(766) succeeded the man of God, Cuthbert, in the exercise of a solitary life, which he spent in the isle of Farne(767) before he became a bishop. After he...
14. BOOK IVChap. I. How when Deusdedit died, Wighard was sent to Rome to receive the episcopate; but he dying there, Theodore was ordained archbishop, and sent into Britain with the Abbot...
13. BOOK IIIEdwin being slain in battle, the kingdom of the Deiri, to which province his family belonged, and where he first began to reign, passed to Osric, the son of his uncle Aelfric, w...
11. BOOK IBritain, an island in the Atlantic, formerly called Albion, lies to the north-west, facing, though at a considerable distance, the coasts of Germany, France, and Spain, which fo...
12. BOOK IIAt this time, that is, in the year of our Lord 605,(144) the blessed Pope Gregory, after having most gloriously governed the Roman Apostolic see thirteen years, six months, and...
10. BOOK V.—Book V opens with the story of the holy Ethelwald, who succeededCuthbert as anchorite at Farne, and a miracle wrought through his intercession. This is followed (cc. 2-6) by an account of John of Beverley, Bishop of Hexham, and the miracles...
5. Book VChap. I. How Ethelwald, successor to Cuthbert, leading a hermit’s life, calmed a tempest by his prayers when the brethren were in danger at sea. [687-699 A.D.] Chap. II. How Bis...
1. Book IChap. I. Of the Situation of Britain and Ireland, and of their ancient inhabitants. Chap. II. How Caius Julius Caesar was the first Roman that came into Britain. Chap. III. How...
8. BOOK III.—Book III opens with the story of the apostasy of theNorthumbrian kings and the miseries of the “Hateful Year,” terminated by the victory of Oswald at Heavenfield in 634 A.D. Christianity is brought again to Northumbria (635 A.D.)...
3. Book IIIChap. I. How King Edwin’s next successors lost both the faith of their nation and the kingdom; but the most Christian King Oswald retrieved both. [633 A.D.] Chap. II. How, among...
4. Book IVChap. I. How when Deusdedit died, Wighard was sent to Rome to receive the episcopate; but he dying there, Theodore was ordained archbishop, and sent into Britain with the Abbot...
9. BOOK IV.—In all but one of the kingdoms of England Christianity is now, atleast in name, established, and the Church settles down to the work of organization. The man for this task is found in Theodore of Tarsus, consecrated Archbishop of the English...
7. BOOK II.—Book II opens with a biographical sketch of Gregory the Great,the founder of the Mission. This is followed by an account of Augustine’s negotiations with the leaders of the British Church with regard to the Paschal question and some other...
2. Book IIChap. I. Of the death of the blessed Pope Gregory. [604 A.D.] Chap. II. How Augustine admonished the bishops of the Britons on behalf of Catholic peace, and to that end wrought...
6. BOOK I.—In Book I, cc. 1-22, Bede sketches the early history of Britain,describing the country and giving some account of the various races by whom it was inhabited. The story of the Roman occupation is narrated at some length, the invasions of the...