Written in ad 731, bede's work opens with a background sketch of roman britain's geography and history.It goes on to tell of the kings and bishops, monks and nuns who helped to develop anglo-saxon government and religion during the crucial formative years of the english people.Leo sherley-price's translation brings us an accurate and readable version, in modern english, of a unique historical document.This edition now includes bede's letter to egbert concerning pastoral care in early anglo-saxon england, at the heart of which lay bede's denunciation of the false monasteries and the death of bede, an admirable eye-witness account by cuthbert, monk and later abbot of jarrow, both translated by d.H. Farmer.
Written in ad 731, bede's work opens with a background sketch of roman britain's geography and history.It goes on to tell of the kings and
