Ecclesiastical History of the English People - With Bede's Letter to Egbert and Cuthbert's Letter on the Death of Bede

Written in AD 731, Bede''s work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain''s geography and history. It goes on to tell of the kings and bishops, monks and nuns who helped to develop Anglo-Saxon government and religion during the crucial formative years of the English people. Leo Sherley-Price''s translation brings us an accurate and readable version, in modern English, of a unique historical document. This edition now includes Bede''s Letter to Egbert concerning pastoral care in early Anglo-Saxon England, at the heart of which lay Bede''s denunciation of the false monasteries; and The Death of Bede, an admirable eye-witness account by Cuthbert, monk and later Abbot of Jarrow, both translated by D. H. Farmer.