#venerable bede

[medievalistsnet]

The Age of Bede: How a Monk Shaped Early Medieval England

Discover how the Venerable Bede, a Northumbrian monk, shaped the history of early medieval England through his Ecclesiastical History and lasting influence.

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[illustratus]

The Last Chapter by James Doyle Penrose

[frogshunnedshadows]

"...For it is not possible to translate verse, however well composed, literally from one language to another without some loss of beauty and dignity."

– Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, circa 731 AD, Clarendon Press edition, 1969 AD.

[caedmonofwhitby]

It's October, the month with perhaps the most evocative name in the Anglo-Saxon calendar: in Old English it was called 'Winterfylleð', because (Bede says) the full moon of this month marked the beginning of winter.

Eleanor Parker

Sunset over Carlisle, 1852

Samuel Bough (1822–1878)

Oil on Canvas

Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery

[bengerm]

interesting fact of the day, due to the linguistic conservatism of the geordie dialect (Tyneside English or Newcastle English) , it means the poems of the scholar Bede are better translated into geordie than standard English!

[vox-anglosphere]

Venerable Bede's 7th century manuscript 'On the Reckoning of Time'

[sporclechezchunklets]

From the Liber Chronicarum, also known as the Nuremberg Chronicle, by Hartmann Schedel, illustrated by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, published in Nuremberg, 1493.  The Illustration of Bede is on page 158v.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Like the Swift Flight Of a Single Sparrow

“It seems to me that the life of man on earth is like the swift flight of a single sparrow through the banqueting hall where you are sitting at dinner on a winter’s day with your captains and counsellors. In the midst there is a comforting fire to warm the hall. Outside, the storms of winter rain and snow are raging. This sparrow flies swiftly in through one window of the hall and out through another. While he is inside, the bird is safe from the winter storms, but after a few moments of comfort, he vanishes from sight into the wintry world from which he came. So man appears on earth for a little while – but of what went before this life, or what follows, we know nothing.”

 [- - Venerable Bede’s History of the English People]

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