Written by the late Patrick Wormald, one of the leading authorities on Bede’s life and work over a 30-year period, this book is a collection of studies on Bede and early English Christian society.

• A collection of studies on Bede, the greatest historian of the English Middle Ages, and the early English church.
• Integrates the religious, intellectual, political and social history of the English in their first Christian centuries.
• Looks at how Bede and other writers charted the establishment of a Christian community within a warrior society.
• Features the first map of all known or likely early Christian communities in England.
• Includes plans and illustrations of the finest early Christian church in England at Brixworth.
• An appendix considers Bede’s treatment of St. Hilda, the first great English female saint.

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