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Ecclesiastical History of the English People

St Bede, tr. Sellar, 1907

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Letter of Cuthbert to Cuthwin
Bede’s Preface, to King Ceolwulf
Book 1, Of the Situation of Britain and Ireland, and of Their Ancient Inhabitants
Book 1, How Caius Julius Caesar Was the First Roman that Came into Britain
Book 1, How Claudius, the Second of the Romans Who Came into Britain, Brought the Islands…
Book 1, How Lucius, King of Britain, Writing to Pope Eleutherus, Desired to Be Made a…
Book 1, How the Emperor Severus Divided from the Rest by a Rampart that Part of Britain…
Book 1, Of the Reign of Diocletian, and How He Persecuted the Christians
Book 1, The Passion of St. Alban and His Companions, Who at that Time Shed Their Blood…
Book 1, How, When the Persecution Ceased, the Church in Britain Enjoyed Peace Till the…
Book 1, How During the Reign of Gratian, Maximus, Being Created Emperor in Britain,…
Book 1, How, in the Reign of Arcadius, Pelagius, a Briton, Insolently Impugned the Grace…
Book 1, How During the Reign of Honorius, Gratian and Constantine Were Created Tyrants in…
Book 1, How the Britons, Being Ravaged by the Scots and Picts, Sought Succour from the…
Book 1, How in the Reign of Theodosius the Younger, in Whose Time Palladius Was Sent to…
Book 1, How the Britons, Compelled by the Great Famine, Drove the Barbarians Out of Their…
Book 1, How the Angles, Being Invited into Britain, at First Drove Off the Enemy; But Not…
Book 1, How the Britons Obtained Their First Victory Over the Angles, Under the Command…
Book 1, How Germanus the Bishop, Sailing into Britain with Lupus, First Quelled the…
Book 1, How the Same Holy Man Gave Sight to the Blind Daughter of a Tribune, and Then…
Book 1, How the Same Holy Man, Being Detained There by Sickness, by His Prayers Quenched…
Book 1, How the Same Bishops Brought Help from Heaven to the Britons in a Battle, and…
Book 1, How, When the Pelagian Heresy Began to Spring Up Afresh, Germanus, Returning to…
Book 1, How the Britons, Being for a Time at Rest from Foreign Invasions, Wore Themselves…
Book 1, How the Holy Pope Gregory Sent Augustine, with Other Monks, to Preach to the…
Book 1, How He Wrote to the Bishop of Arles to Entertain Them. [596 a.d.]
Book 1, How Augustine, Coming into Britain, First Preached in the Isle of Thanet to the…
Book 1, How St. Augustine in Kent Followed the Doctrine and Manner of Life of the…
Book 1, How St. Augustine, Being Made a Bishop, Sent to Acquaint Pope Gregory with What…
Book 1, How Pope Gregory Wrote to the Bishop of Arles to Help Augustine in the Work of…
Book 1, How the Same Pope Sent to Augustine the Pall and a Letter, Along with Several…
Book 1, A Copy of the Letter Which Pope Gregory Sent to the Abbot Mellitus, Then Going…
Book 1, How Pope Gregory, by Letter, Exhorted Augustine Not to Glory in His Miracles.…
Book 1, How Pope Gregory Sent Letters and Gifts to King Ethelbert. [601 a.d.]
Book 1, How Augustine Repaired the Church of Our Saviour, and Built the Monastery of the…
Book 1, How Ethelfrid, King of the Northumbrians, Having Vanquished the Nations of the…
Book 2, 1. Of the Death of the Blessed Pope Gregory. [604 a.d.]
Book 2, How Augustine Admonished the Bishops of the Britons on Behalf of Catholic Peace,…
Book 2, How St. Augustine Made Mellitus and Justus Bishops; and of His Death. [604 a.d.]
Book 2, How Laurentius and His Bishops Admonished the Scots to Observe the Unity of the…
Book 2, How, After the Death of the Kings Ethelbert and Sabert, Their Successors Restored…
Book 2, How Laurentius, Being Reproved by the Apostle Peter, Converted King Eadbald to…
Book 2, How Bishop Mellitus by Prayer Quenched a Fire in His City. [619 a.d.]
Book 2, How Pope Boniface Sent the Pall and a Letter to Justus, Successor to Mellitus.…
Book 2, Of the Reign of King Edwin, and How Paulinus, Coming to Preach the Gospel, First…
Book 2, How Pope Boniface, by Letter, Exhorted the Same King to Embrace the Faith. [Circ.…
Book 2, How Pope Boniface Advised the King’s Consort to Use Her Best Endeavours for His…
Book 2, How Edwin Was Persuaded to Believe by a Vision Which He Had Once Seen When He Was…
Book 2, Of the Council He Held with His Chief Men Concerning Their Reception of the Faith…
Book 2, How King Edwin and His Nation Became Christians; and Where Paulinus Baptized…
Book 2, How the Province of the East Angles Received the Faith of Christ. [627-628 a.d.]
Book 2, How Paulinus Preached in the Province of Lindsey; and of the Character of the…
Book 2, How Edwin Received Letters of Exhortation from Pope Honorius, Who Also Sent the…
Book 2, How Honorius, Who Succeeded Justus in the Bishopric of Canterbury, Received the…
Book 2, How the Aforesaid Honorius First, and Afterwards John, Wrote Letters to the…
Book 2, How Edwin Being Slain, Paulinus Returned into Kent, and Had the Bishopric of…
Book 3, How King Edwin’s Next Successors Lost Both the Faith of Their Nation and the…
Book 3, How, Among Innumerable Other Miracles of Healing Wrought by the Wood of the…
Book 3, How the Same King Oswald, Asking a Bishop of the Scottish Nation, Had Aidan Sent…
Book 3, When the Nation of the Picts Received the Faith of Christ. [565 a.d.]
Book 3, 5. Of the Life of Bishop Aidan. [635 a.d.]
Book 3, Of King Oswald’s Wonderful Piety and Religion. [635-642 a.d.]
Book 3, How the West Saxons Received the Word of God by the Preaching of Birinus; and of…
Book 3, How Earconbert, King of Kent, Ordered the Idols to Be Destroyed; and of His…
Book 3, How Miracles of Healing Have Been Frequently Wrought in the Place Where King…
Book 3, How the Dust of that Place Prevailed Against Fire. [After 642 a.d.]
Book 3, How a Light from Heaven Stood All Night Over His Relics, and How Those Possessed…
Book 3, 12. How a Little Boy Was Cured of a Fever at His Tomb
Book 3, How a Certain Person in Ireland Was Restored, When at the Point of Death, by His…
Book 3, How on the Death of Paulinus, Ithamar Was Made Bishop of Rochester in His Stead;…
Book 3, How Bishop Aidan Foretold to Certain Seamen that a Storm Would Arise, and Gave…
Book 3, How the Same Aidan, by His Prayers, Saved the Royal City When It Was Fired by the…
Book 3, How a Prop of the Church on Which Bishop Aidan Was Leaning When He Died, Could…
Book 3, Of the Life and Death of the Religious King Sigbert. [Circ. 631 a.d.]
Book 3, How Fursa Built a Monastery Among the East Angles, and of His Visions and…
Book 3, How, When Honorius Died, Deusdedit Became Archbishop of Canterbury; and of Those…
Book 3, How the Province of the Midland Angles Became Christian Under King Peada. [653…
Book 3, How Under King Sigbert, Through the Preaching of Cedd, the East Saxons Again…
Book 3, How Bishop Cedd, Having a Place for Building a Monastery Given Him by King…
Book 3, How When King Penda Was Slain, the Province of the Mercians Received the Faith of…
Book 3, How the Question Arose About the Due Time of Keeping Easter, with Those that Came…
Book 3, How Colman, Being Worsted, Returned Home; and Tuda Succeeded Him in the…
Book 3, How Egbert, a Holy Man of the English Nation, Led a Monastic Life in Ireland.…
Book 3, How, When Tuda Was Dead, Wilfrid Was Ordained, in Gaul, and Ceadda, Among the…
Book 3, How the Priest Wighard Was Sent from Britain to Rome, to Be Ordained Archbishop;…
Book 3, How the East Saxons, During a Pestilence, Returned to Idolatry, But Were Soon…
Book 4, How When Deusdedit Died, Wighard Was Sent to Rome to Receive the Episcopate; But…
Book 4, How Theodore Visited All Places; How the Churches of the English Began to Be…
Book 4, How the Above-mentioned Ceadda Was Made Bishop of the Province of Mercians. Of…
Book 4, How Bishop Colman, Having Left Britain, Built Two Monasteries in the Country of…
Book 4, Of the Death of the Kings Oswy and Egbert, and of the Synod Held at the Place…
Book 4, How Wynfrid Being Deposed, Sexwulf Received His Bishopric, and Earconwald Was…
Book 4, How It Was Indicated by a Light from Heaven Where the Bodies of the Nuns Should…
Book 4, How a Little Boy, Dying in the Same Monastery, Called Upon a Virgin that Was to…
Book 4, Of the Signs Which Were Shown from Heaven When the Mother of that Community…
Book 4, How a Blind Woman, Praying in the Burial-place of that Monastery, Was Restored to…
Book 4, How Sebbi, King of the Same Province, Ended His Life in a Monastery. [694 a.d.]
Book 4, How Haedde Succeeded Leutherius in the Bishopric of the West Saxons; How Cuichelm…
Book 4, How Bishop Wilfrid Converted the Province of the South Saxons to Christ. [681…
Book 4, How a Pestilence Ceased Through the Intercession of King Oswald. [681-686 a.d.]
Book 4, How King Caedwalla, King of the Gewissae, Having Slain Ethelwalch, Wasted that…
Book 4, How the Isle of Wight Received Christian Inhabitants, and Two Royal Youths of…
Book 4, Of the Synod Held in the Plain of Haethfelth, Archbishop Theodore Being…
Book 4, Of John, the Precentor of the Apostolic See, Who Came into Britain to Teach. [680…
Book 4, How Queen Ethelthryth Always Preserved Her Virginity, and Her Body Suffered No…
Book 4, 20. A Hymn Concerning Her
Book 4, How Bishop Theodore Made Peace Between the Kings Egfrid and Ethelred. [679 a.d.]
Book 4, How a Certain Captive’s Chains Fell Off When Masses Were Sung for Him. [679 a.d.]
Book 4, 23. Of the Life and Death of the Abbess Hilda. [614-680 a.d.]
Book 4, That There Was in Her Monastery a Brother, on Whom the Gift of Song Was Bestowed…
Book 4, Of the Vision that Appeared to a Certain Man of God Before the Monastery of the…
Book 4, Of the Death of the Kings Egfrid and Hlothere. [684-685 a.d.]
Book 4, How Cuthbert, a Man of God, Was Made Bishop; and How He Lived and Taught Whilst…
Book 4, How the Same St. Cuthbert, Living the Life of an Anchorite, by His Prayers…
Book 4, How This Bishop Foretold that His Own Death Was at Hand to the Anchorite…
Book 4, How His Body Was Found Altogether Uncorrupted After It Had Been Buried Eleven…
Book 4, 31. Of One that Was Cured of a Palsy at His Tomb
Book 4, Of One Who Was Lately Cured of a Disease in His Eye at the Relics of St. Cuthbert
Book 5, How Ethelwald, Successor to Cuthbert, Leading a Hermit’s Life, Calmed a Tempest…
Book 5, How Bishop John Cured a Dumb Man by His Blessing. [687 a.d.]
Book 5, 3. How He Healed a Sick Maiden by His Prayers. [705 a.d.]
Book 5, 4. How He Healed a Thegn’s Wife that Was Sick, with Holy Water
Book 5, How He Likewise Recalled by His Prayers a Thegn’s Servant from Death
Book 5, How, Both by His Prayers and Blessing, He Recalled from Death One of His Clerks,…
Book 5, How Caedwalla, King of the West Saxons, Went to Rome to Be Baptized; and His…
Book 5, How, When Archbishop Theodore Died, Bertwald Succeeded Him as Archbishop, and,…
Book 5, How the Holy Man, Egbert, Would Have Gone into Germany to Preach, But Could Not;…
Book 5, How Wilbrord, Preaching in Frisland, Converted Many to Christ; and How His Two…
Book 5, How the Venerable Suidbert in Britain, and Wilbrord at Rome, Were Ordained…
Book 5, How One in the Province of the Northumbrians, Rose from the Dead, and Related…
Book 5, How Another Contrarywise Before His Death Saw a Book Containing His Sins, Which…
Book 5, How Another in Like Manner, Being at the Point of Death, Saw the Place of…
Book 5, How Divers Churches of the Scots, at the Instance of Adamnan, Adopted the…
Book 5, The Account Given in the Aforesaid Book of the Place of Our Lord’s Nativity,…
Book 5, What He Likewise Wrote of the Place of Our Lord’s Ascension, and the Tombs of the…
Book 5, How the South Saxons Received Eadbert and Eolla, and the West Saxons, Daniel and…
Book 5, How Coinred, King of the Mercians, and Offa, King of the East Saxons, Ended Their…
Book 5, How Albinus Succeeded to the Godly Abbot Hadrian, and Acca to Bishop Wilfrid.…
Book 5, How the Abbot Ceolfrid Sent Master-builders to the King of the Picts to Build a…
Book 5, How the Monks of Hii, and the Monasteries Subject to Them, Began to Celebrate the…
Book 5, Of the Present State of the English Nation, or of All Britain. [725-731 a.d.]
Book 5, Chronological Recapitulation of the Whole Work: Also Concerning the Author Himself
Book 5, Continuation