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Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Ecclesiastical History of the English People Author:Bede A handsome, large-format paperback edition set in elegant type with generous margins. The venerable Bede (AD 672-735) was not the first historian of the British Isles, but he was the first to to list and master his documentary and oral sources. For a man who travelled little, he showed a great depth of understanding about the outside world, i... more »nforming himself by commissioning others to copy documents in the Papal Regista and various episcopal and monastic archives.« less