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Description for Bede
Hardcover. These texts are crucial for an understanding of early medieval science. Bede was instrumental in reinvigorating science as a tool that could be useful for practical ends. Furthermore, his works stand at the intersection of science and theology -- a conjunction that is very much a matter of contemporary interest and debate. Series: Translated Texts for Historians. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLC; HRCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 430.
The Venerable Bede composed On the Nature of Things (De natura rerum) and On Times (De temporibus) at the outset of his career, about AD 703. Bede fashioned himself as a teacher to his people and his age, and these two short works show him selecting, editing, and clarifying a mass of difficult and sometimes dangerous material. He insisted that his reader understand the mathematical and physical basis of time, and though he was dependent on his textual sources, he also included observations of his own. But Bede was also a Christian exegete who thought deeply and earnestly about how ... Read more
The Venerable Bede composed On the Nature of Things (De natura rerum) and On Times (De temporibus) at the outset of his career, about AD 703. Bede fashioned himself as a teacher to his people and his age, and these two short works show him selecting, editing, and clarifying a mass of difficult and sometimes dangerous material. He insisted that his reader understand the mathematical and physical basis of time, and though he was dependent on his textual sources, he also included observations of his own. But Bede was also a Christian exegete who thought deeply and earnestly about how ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
Series
Translated Texts for Historians
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846314957
SKU
V9781846314957
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Ref
99-50
About Bede
Calvin B. Kendall is Emeritus Professor of English, University of Minnesota. His many books include The Allegory of the Church: Romanesque Portals and Their Verse Inscriptions (University of Toronto Press 1998) and (with Faith Wallis) Bede: On the Nature of Things and On Times (Liverpool University Press 2010). Faith Wallis is Professor Emerita at McGill University in Montreal. Her research ... Read more
Reviews for Bede
Accurate, elegant, utterly clear and easily accessible, even for readers who lack expertise in the relevant disciplines. The Commentaries and Appendices shed floods of light on Bede's mental processes and expertise, and will represent a very significant landmark in Bedan studies. The book, in short, will be a wonderful addition to the series of TTH. ... you will find much ... Read more