Bede - The Ecclesiastical History of the English People; The Greater Chronicle; Letter to Egbert

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BEDE

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
JUDITH McCLURE
and
ROGER COLLINS

Great Clarendon Street, Oxford 0X2 6DP

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Text of The Ecclesiastical History Oxford University Press 1969
Editorial matter and Translation of The Greater Chronicle and Letter to
Egbert Judith McClure and Roger Collins

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First published as a Worlds Classics paperback 1994
Reissued as an Oxford Worlds Classics paperback 1999

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Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673735.
[Historica ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, English]
The ecclesiastical history of the English people; The greater
chronicle; Bedes letter to Egbert / Bede; edited with an
introduction by Judith McClure and Roger Collins.
(Oxford worlds classics)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. EnglandChurch history4491066. 2. Civilization, Anglo
Saxon. I. McClure, Judith. II. Collins, Roger, 1949-.
III. Title: Ecclesiastical history of the English people.
IV. Title: Greater Chronicle. V. Title: Bedes letter to Egbert.
VI. Series.
BR746.B5 1994 274.202dc20 963926

ISBN13: 9780192838667
ISBN10: 0192838660
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