Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

Ecclesiastical history
Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
(Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, Ecclesiastical history of the English people)

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Period covered:

55 B.C.-731

Language:

Latin

State of Preservation:

Full

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Remarks:

Another author has continued the work in a chronographic way until 766.

Edition - Translation:

C. Plummer (1896) Venerabilis Baedae Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum, Historiam abbatum, Epistolam ad Ecgberctum una cum Historia abbatum auctore anonymo. Oxford.
R.A.B. Mynors, B. Colgrave (1969) Bede's Ecclesiastical history of the English people (Oxford Medieval Texts). Oxford.
J. McClure (1994) Bede: The Ecclesiastical history of the English people. The greater chronicle. Bede's letter to Egbert. Oxford.
G. Spitzbart (1982) Beda Venerabilis, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum: Kirchengeschichte des englischen Volkes. Darmstadt.
A. Crépin, M. Lapidge, P. Monat, P. Robin (2005) Bède le vénérable: Histoire ecclésiastique du peuple anglais. Three Volumes (Sources chrétiennes, 489, 490 and 491). Paris.

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Bibliography:

(1995) Clavis patrum Latinorum (CPL) 1375
P. Chiesa, L. Castaldi (2008) La trasmissione dei testi latini del Medioevo: Mediaeval Latin texts and their transmission. Volume Three (Millennio medievale, 75). Florence: 78-111.
K. Darby (2012) Bede and the end of time. Farnham.
N.J. Higham (2006) (Re-)reading Bede: The Historia ecclesiastica in context. London.
A.H. Thompson (1969) Bede, his life, times and writings. Oxford.
J.M. Wallace-Hadrill (1988) Bede's Ecclesiastical history of the English people: A historical commentary. Oxford.
P. Wormald (2006) The times of Bede, 625-865. Studies in early English Christian society and its historian. Oxford.