num_pages: 309
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Times of Bede
titlecomplete: The Times of Bede
characters: Hild of Whitby, Bede
ratings_count: 5
places: Anglo-Saxon England, Northumbria
publisher: Wiley-Blackwell