Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-329) and index.
Part One: Alter orbis -- Change in the West -- Bede's view of Britain -- Britons and English -- English foundations -- Part Two: Towards Christianity -- The initiation of a mission -- The journey to England -- Gregory's correspondence -- Bede's account of the mission -- The first Archbishops of Canterbury -- Paulinus in Northumbria -- 'Celtic' and 'Roman' missionaries -- Part Three: The growth of monasticism -- Gaulish and Italian influences -- Spanish influences -- Aspects of English monasticism -- Benedict Biscop's early years -- The foundation of Wearmouth -- The foundation of Jarrow -- The Abbacy of Ceolfrith -- Part Four: Learning, teaching and writing -- The regular life -- The Bible in the West -- The Northumbrian Bible -- Education and the Grammarians -- Reading and Psalmody -- Number and time -- The lives of saints -- Secular and Christian books -- Candela Ecclesiae.
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Bede,673-735.
Beda (Venerabilis)
Beda, 672-735
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Bede,673-735.
Anglo-Saxons-- Intellectual life.
Anglo-Saxons, Biography.
Authors, English-- Old English, ca. 450-1100, Biography.
Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern)-- England, Biography.