Ecclesiastical History of Britain, by The Venerable Bede, Part 1

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Sharon Handy

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🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Let’s relax with the spread of Christianity in Britain, penned by a saint who was actually there. But first, a preface, an intro, and a biography of the blessed Bede! We do get to the history eventually, but you’ll probably be asleep.

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0:00.0	Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.
0:08.0	I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you
0:17.1	get some sleep.
0:19.6	Before we begin, I'd like to give a special shout out of thanks to some new members of our
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1:18.7	I hope you'll take a moment to check them out. Now let's read and relax. Find a comfortable spot. Adjust your volume. Take a nice deep breath in. Let it out slowly.
1:44.0	And off we go.
1:49.0	Tonight, by listener request,
1:52.0	we're relaxing with a very old book.
1:56.0	The Ecclesiastical History of England, written by the venerable bead in a revised translation with introduction life and notes by
2:09.8	AM Cellar, Late Vice Principal of Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford, and published in
2:18.1	1907 by George Bell and Sons, London. Let's begin.
2:27.0	Editor's Preface, the English version of the Ecclesiastical History in the following pages is a revision of the translation of Dr. Giles, which is itself a revision of the revision of the earlier rendering of Stevens.
2:44.4	In the present edition, very considerable alterations have been made,
2:50.6	but the work of Dr. Giles remains the basis of the translation.
2:56.5	The Latin text used throughout is Mr. Plumbers.
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