Description: "This book investigates the life and world of Bede (c. 673-735), foremost scholar of the early Middle Ages and 'the father of English history'. It examines his notable feats, including calculating the first tide-tables; playing a role in the creation of the Ceolfrith Bibles and the Lindisfarne Gospels; writing the earliest extant Old English poetry and the earliest translation of part of the Bible into English; and composing his famous Ecclesiastical History of the English People, with its single dating system. Despite never leaving Northumbria, Bede also wrote a guide to the Holy Land. Michelle P. Brown, an authority on the period, describes new discoveries regarding Bede's handwriting, his research programme and his previously lost Old English translation of St John's Gospel, dictated on his deathbed."--Publisher's website.
Brief description:
Michelle P. Brown is professor emerita of medieval manuscript studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London and former curator of illuminated manuscripts at the British Library. Her books include Illumino, also published by Reaktion Books.
Review Quotes: "This beautiful book, superbly bound and lavishly illustrated with photographs (many in colour), will delight all who are interested in early British Christian history . . . I recommend this highly readable book; it is full of facts and wisdom."-- "Transforming Ministry"