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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. text and notes I don’t normally rate or review books that I give up reading but decided to do so in this case because I got beyond the halfway mark. The earlier chapters I consider quite interesting, but the further into it I got, the harder I found it to keep my concentration. It feels repetitive in some respects, yet the aspect that made me stop reading was yet another vision being recounted as a historic fact. Some such visions occur when people are awake, while at least one happened during sleep, so in other words it was a dream. The number of miracles recorded as facts are as tedious as they are unbelievable. For instance, the dust were Oswald, King of Northumbria, was slain was able to cure deadly illnesses, simply because Oswald was sainted. Bede also declares that certain kings should have their names erased from history and their reigns forgotten because of their disbelief in the Christian faith. So, ‘cancel culture’ sadly existed in Anglo-Saxon times. Such omissions don’t make for good history. This is a didactic and biased text by an early historian. I accept, of course, that the mindset of someone living in the eight century is worlds away from that of the present day. Despite this, it didn’t make this book any more enjoyable for me to read. My fourth reading of Bede's magnum opus and I struggled for several reasons: it was my first time not reading my beloved Sherley-Price translation and my first time reading the History during a worldwide pandemic and very serious family health crisis. Thank goodness for the good people at LibriVox.org who had recorded an audiobook of Sellar's translation. Bede's chronicle of the rise, expansion, and consolidation of Roman Catholicism among the Anglo-Saxon tribes in England from the fifth through the early part of the eighth centuries. Bede is one of our primary sources for the period. His chronicle thinks highly of the bishops and monks from Augustine onward as well as those rulers who converted or proved zealous for the faith. A lot of miracle stories are recorded. Bede is not quite as kind about British/Celtic Christianity. He recognizes their greater antiquity and speaks of the developments which led to their faith, but regarded them generally in contempt. The big concern throughout is when Easter should be observed: we today may find it trifling, but for Bede it proves almost all-important. One needs to have the virtues of an Aidan to be able to overcome that bias. In Bede's account can be seen the imposition of the "order" of Roman Catholicism on Celtic Christianity via the conversion and continual correction of the English by Augustine, sent by Pope Gregory, and those who came after him. This version is highly readable with helpful notes and also includes a letter of Bede to a bishop and Cuthbert's chronicle of Bede's death. An indispensable resource to understanding the development of Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England. Det är kanske inte helt rättvist att sammanfatta den vördnadsvärde Bedes historia som en bok som till stor del handlar om vilka dagar man skall fira påsk på, men när karln valt att lägga in ett långt brev om detta på de allra sista sidorna kan man nästan inte låta bli. I huvudsak handlar boken om kristnandet av de anglosaxiska folken, vilket gjordes av utsända från Irland och Rom, medan britannerna tycks ha hållit sig mer på sin egen kant. Irländare och brittanner firade ävenledes påsk på andra datum än resten av Europa, och även om detta inte riktigt ansågs som kätterskt var det i alla fall suspekt, vilket föranledda sagda brev. Grovt sett skildrar boken tre faser: Brittanniens fornhistoria, då det erövrades och försvarades av Rom innan de germanska erövrarna kom, missionsfasen, då dessa germaner långsamt kristnades, samt kristendomens konsolidering och enande, då de motsträviga irländarna fås att ta sitt förnuft till fånga. Har man inte ett speciellt intresse för kristen organisering, grundande av kloster och stift, så är de två första delarna klart mest livliga (även om det aldrig blir riktigt tråkigt förrän det ovan nämnda brevet): det är strider mellan diverse olika folk och kungar, heliga män som gör mirakel, fromma kungar och hedniska reaktioner, och i alla fall i min översättning berättat nöjaktigt medryckande. Miraklen är ofta tämligen rättframma saker: någon helas från sjukdom, stormar stillas, ting skonas från eld eller en död förutses. Mest intressant är kanske Caedmon, en djurskötare som fick en drömsyn och sedan kunde dikta vacker vers om bibliska ämnen. Ett litet stycke av hans poesi citeras, vilket är allt som finns kvar av den förste kände engelske poetens alster. Bede räknas som den engelska historiens fader, och även om hans verk inte alltid är det mest spännande man kan läsa är det likväl inget att fnysa åt. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Bede's best known work, An Ecclesiastical History of the English People, was written in Latin and is not immediately easy to understand and follow. And yet it is a key text for any student of English history. Rowan Williams shows in his introduction how Bede works to create a sense of national destiny for the new English kingdoms of the seventh century, a sense that has helped to shape English self-awareness through the centuries, by using the imagery both of imperial Rome and of biblical Israel. But Bede also wrestles with the difficult question of how the Church relates to and serves the pol No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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