# Ecclesiastical History of the English People

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- Book: [Ecclesiastical History of the English People](https://www.bookquiver.com/bede/ecclesiastical-history-of-the-english-people) ([Ecclesiastical History of the English People.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/bede/ecclesiastical-history-of-the-english-people.md))
- Authors: [Beda](https://www.bookquiver.com/bede)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4044-565-7
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2003-06-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 Leo Sherley-Price's translation brings us an accurate and readable version, in modern English, of a unique historical document.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.