Arms attributed to St. Bede in Post, Saints, Signs and Symbols. 

• Welcome
• Bede's Life
• Bede Net -- "An academic resource devoted to the works of the Venerable Bede." Includes useful links, notices, and a directory of scholars interested in Bede.
• Bede's Tomb at Durham Cathedral
• Bede's World, the Museum of Early Medieval Northumbria at Jarrow.
"Bede's World aims to preserve the Jarrow site as a centre of historical, religious and cultural importance in the north of England, focusing on the life, times and work of the Venerable Bede."

• Studies of Bede in general and as a theologian
• A chronology of Bede's writings
• Editions and translations of Bede's works
• Some Bedan texts in modern English translation:
• In the Internet Medieval Sourcebook, maintained by Paul Halsall: 
• The Ecclesiastical History, prepared for the Internet Medieval Sourcebook by Alexander Pyle, aepyle@lamar.colostate.edu , Colorado State University. 
• On the Conversion of England, from the Ecclesiastical History
• The arrival of Augustine and his companions in Kent (selections from: I.23; I.25; I.26)
• Pope Gregory's instructions on pagan temples and rites (selection from I.30)
• The Conversion of Northumbria (The "Life is like a sparrow's flight" passage) (selection from II.13)
• The Synod of Whitby (selection from III.25)
• The Life of St. Cuthbert
• The Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow
• Abbreviations used throughout these pages

Welcome While St. Bede is most noted for his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, I am more interested in his Bible commentaries. My Ph.D. dissertation, Bede's Exegetical Theology: Ideas of the Church in the Acts Commentaries of St. Bede the Venerable (University of Notre Dame, 1994), focussed on the way in which explaining the Bible was a way of "doing theology" for Bede. Unless otherwise indicated, information in the following pages comes from the dissertation (which is copyright (c) 1994, and still available only from University Microfilms, Ann Arbor). 

John William Houghton 
houghtonj@ehsbr.org

Dedication and abstract of my dissertation

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This page last revised July 15, 2008.