The Times of Bede: Studies in Early English Christian Society and Its Historian by Wormald, Patrick

The Times of Bede: Studies in Early English Christian Society and Its Historian (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780631166559)

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The Times of Bede: Studies in Early English Christian Society and Its Historian by Wormald, Patrick

The Times of Bede: Studies in Early English Christian Society and Its Historian

$107.95
The Times of Bede: Studies in Early English Christian Society and Its Historian by Wormald, Patrick

The Times of Bede: Studies in Early English Christian Society and Its Historian

$107.95
Format: Hardcover
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Written by the late Patrick Wormald, one of the leading authorities on Bede's life and work over a 30-year period, this book is a collection of studies on Bede and early English Christian society.
  • A collection of studies on Bede, the greatest historian of the English Middle Ages, and the early English church.
  • 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.
  • Features the first map of all known or likely early Christian communities in England.
  • Includes plans and illustrations of the finest early Christian church in England at Brixworth.
  • An appendix considers Bede's treatment of St. Hilda, the first great English female saint.


Author: Patrick Wormald
ISBN-10: 0631166556
ISBN-13: 9780631166559
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2006
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.08d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 265
By Patrick Wormald
By Patrick Wormald
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The author

Before his death in 2004, Patrick Wormald was a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He was previously a Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, a Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Glasgow, and a Student of Christ Church, Oxford. He lectured widely in Europe, Scandinavia and North America and had an international reputation as an early-medieval scholar secured by many impressive and meticulously researched articles and by his most magisterial achievement, The Making of English Law.

The Editor

Stephen Baxter was one of Patrick Wormald's students, and is a Lecturer in Medieval History at King's College, London.

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