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Bede · c. 673 – 735

Ecclesiastical History of the English People

731 · trans. A. M. Sellar (1907) · translated from the Latin

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  1. BOOK I1
  2. CHAP. I. Of the Situation of Britain and Ireland, and of their ancient inhabitants1
  3. CHAP. II. How Caius Julius Caesar was the first Roman that came into Britain. [54 BCE]1
  4. CHAP. III. How Claudius, the second of the Romans who came into Britain, brought the islands Orcades into subjection to1
  5. CHAP. IV. How Lucius, king of Britain, writing to Pope Eleutherus, desired to be made a Christian.1
  6. CHAP. V. How the Emperor Severus divided from the rest by a rampart that part of Britain which had been recovered.1
  7. CHAP. VI. Of the reign of Diocletian, and how he persecuted the Christians. [286 AD]1
  8. CHAP. VIII. How, when the persecution ceased, the Church in Britain enjoyed peace till the time of the Arian heresy. [321
  9. CHAP. IX. How during the reign of Gratian, Maximus, being created Emperor in Britain, returned into Gaul with a mighty a1
  10. CHAP. X. How, in the reign of Arcadius, Pelagius, a Briton, insolently impugned the Grace of God. [395 AD]1
  11. CHAP. XI. How during the reign of Honorius, Gratian and Constantine were created tyrants in Britain; and soon after the1
  12. CHAP. XII. How the Britons, being ravaged by the Scots and Picts, sought succour from the Romans, who coming a second ti1
  13. CHAP. XIII. How in the reign of Theodosius the younger, in whose time Palladius was sent to the Scots that believed in C1
  14. CHAP. XIV. How the Britons, compelled by the great famine, drove the barbarians out of the their territories, and soon a1
  15. CHAP. XV. How the Angles, being invited into Britain, at first drove off the enemy; but not long after, making a league2
  16. CHAP. XVI. How the Britons obtained their first victory over the Angles, under the command of Ambrosius, a Roman. [456 A2
  17. CHAP. XVII. How Germanus the Bishop, sailing into Britain with Lupus, first quelled the tempest of the sea, and afterwar2
  18. CHAP. XVIII. How the same holy man gave sight to the blind daughter of a tribune, and then coming to St. Alban, there re2
  19. CHAP. XIX. How the same holy man, being detained there by sickness, by his prayers quenched a fire that had broken out a2
  20. CHAP. XX. How the same Bishops brought help from Heaven to the Britons in a battle, and then returned home. [430 A.D.]2
  21. CHAP. XXI. How, when the Pelagian heresy began to spring up afresh, Germanus, returning to Britain with Severus, first r2
  22. CHAP. XXII. How the Britons, being for a time at rest from foreign invasions, wore themselves out by civil wars, and at2
  23. CHAP. XXIII. How the holy Pope Gregory sent Augustine, with other monks, to preach to the English nation, and encouraged2
  24. CHAP. XXIV. How he wrote to the bishop of Arles to entertain them. [596 A.D.]2
  25. CHAP. XXV. How Augustine, coming into Britain, first preached in the Isle of Thanet to the King of Kent, and having obta2
  26. CHAP. XXVI. How St. Augustine in Kent followed the doctrine and manner of life of the primitive Church, and settled his2
  27. CHAP. XXVII. How St. Augustine, being made a bishop, sent to acquaint Pope Gregory with what had been done in Britain, a3
  28. CHAP. XXVIII. How Pope Gregory wrote to the bishop of Aries to help Augustine in the work of God. [601 A.D.]3
  29. CHAP. XXIX. How the same Pope sent to Augustine the Pall and a letter, along with several ministers of the Word. [601 A.4
  30. CHAP. XXX. A copy of the letter which Pope Gregory sent to the Abbot Mellitus, then going into Britain. [601 A.D.]4
  31. CHAP. XXXI. How Pope Gregory, by letter, exhorted Augustine not to glory in his miracles. [601 A.D.]4
  32. CHAP. XXXII. How Pope Gregory sent letters and gifts to King Ethelbert. [601 A.D.]4
  33. CHAP. XXXIII. How Augustine repaired the church of our Saviour, and built the monastery of the blessed Peter the Apostle4
  34. CHAP. XXXIV. How Ethelfrid, king of the Northumbrians, having vanquished the nations of the Scots, expelled them from th4
  35. BOOK II5
  36. CHAP. I.5
  37. CHAP. II.5
  38. CHAP. III.5
  39. CHAP. IV.5
  40. CHAP. V.5
  41. CHAP. VI.6
  42. CHAP. VII.6
  43. CHAP. VIII.[624 A.D.]6
  44. CHAP. IX.6
  45. CHAP. X.6
  46. CHAP. XI.6
  47. CHAP. XII.6
  48. CHAP. XIII.7
  49. CHAP. XIV.7
  50. CHAP. XV.7
  51. CHAP. XVI.7
  52. CHAP. XVII.7
  53. CHAP. XVIII.7
  54. CHAP. XIX.7
  55. CHAP. XX.7
  56. BOOK III8
  57. CHAP. I. How King Edwin's next successors lost both the faith of their nation and the kingdom; but the most Christian Ki8
  58. CHAP. II. How, among innumerable other miracles of healing wrought by the wood of the cross, which King Oswald, being re8
  59. CHAP. III. How the same King Oswald, asking a bishop of the Scottish nation, had Aidan sent him, and granted him an epis8
  60. CHAP. IV. When the nation of the Picts received the faith of Christ. [565 A.D.]8
  61. CHAP. V. Of the life of Bishop Aidan. [635 A.D.]8
  62. CHAP. VI. Of King Oswald's wonderful piety and religion. [635-642 A.D.]8
  63. CHAP. VII. How the West Saxons received the Word of God by the preaching of Birinus; and of his successors, Agilbert and8
  64. CHAP. VIII. How Earconbert, King of Kent, ordered the idols to be destroyed, and of his daughter Earcongota, and his kin8
  65. CHAP. IX. How miracles of healing have been frequently wrought in the place where King Oswald was killed; and how, first8
  66. CHAP. X. How the dust of that place prevailed against fire. [After 642 A.D.]9
  67. CHAP. XI. How a light from Heaven stood all night over his relics, and how those possessed with devils were healed by th9
  68. CHAP. XII. How a little boy was cured of a fever at his tomb.9
  69. CHAP. XIII. How a certain person in Ireland was restored, when at the point of death, by his relics.9
  70. CHAP. XIV. How on the death of Paulinus, Ithamar was made Bishop of Rochester in his stead; and of the wonderful humilit9
  71. CHAP. XV. How Bishop Aidan foretold to certain seamen that a storm would arise, and gave them some holy oil to calm it.9
  72. CHAP. XVI. How the same Aidan, by his prayers, saved the royal city when it was fired by the enemy. [Before 651 A.D.]9
  73. CHAP. XVII. How a prop of the church on which Bishop Aidan was leaning when he died, could not be consumed when the rest9
  74. CHAP. XVIII. Of the life and death of the religious King Sigbert [Circ. 631 A.D.]9
  75. CHAP. XIX. How Fursa built a monastery among the East Angles, and of his visions and sanctity, to which, his flesh remai9
  76. CHAP. XX. How, when Honorius died, Deusdedit became Archbishop of Canterbury; and of those who were at that time bishops10
  77. CHAP. XXI. How the province of the Midland Angles became Christian under King Peada. [653 A.D.]10
  78. CHAP. XXII. How under King Sigbert, through the preaching of Cedd, the East Saxons again received the faith, which they10
  79. CHAP. XXIII. How Bishop Cedd, having a place for building a monastery given him by King Etheiwald, consecrated it to the10
  80. CHAP. XXIV. How when King Penda was slain, the province of the Mercians received the faith of Christ, and Oswy gave poss10
  81. CHAP. XXV. How the question arose about the due time of keeping Easter, with those that came out of Scotland. [664 A.D.]10
  82. CHAP. XXVI. How Colman, being worsted, returned home, and Tuda succeeded him in the bishopric, and of the state of the c11
  83. CHAP. XXVII. How Egbert, a holy man of the English nation, led a monastic life in Ireland. [664 A.D.]11
  84. CHAP. XXVIII. How, when Tuda was dead, Wilfrid was ordained, in Gaul, and Ceadda, among the West Saxons, to be bishops f11
  85. CHAP. XXIX. How the priest Wighard was sent from Britain to Rome, to be ordained archbishop; of his death there, and of11
  86. CHAP. XXX. How the East Saxons, during a pestilence, returned to idolatry, but were soon brought back from their error b11
  87. BOOK IV12
  88. CHAP. I. How when Deusdedit died, Wigihard was sent to Rome to receive the episcopate; but he dying there, Theodore was12
  89. CHAP. II. How Theodore visited all places; how the Churches of the English began to be instructed in the study of holy S12
  90. CHAP. III. How the above-mentioned Ceadda was made Bishop of the province of Mercians. Of his life, death, and burial. [12
  91. CHAP. IV. How Bishop Colman, having left Britain, built two monasteries in the country of the Scots; the one for the Sco12
  92. CHAP. V. Of the death of the kings Oswy and Eghert, and of the synod held at the place Herutford, in which Archbishop Th12
  93. CHAP. VI. How Wynfrid being deposed, Sexwulf received his bishopric, and Earconwald was made bishop of the East Saxons.12
  94. CHAP. VII. How it was indicated by a light from heaven where the bodies of the nuns should be buried in the monastery of13
  95. CHAP. VIII. How a little boy, dying in the same monastery, called upon a virgin that was to follow him; and how another13
  96. CHAP. IX. Of the signs which were shown from Heaven when the mother of that community departed this life. [675 A.D.?]13
  97. CHAP. X. How a blind woman, praying in the burial-place of that monastery, was restored to her sight. [675 A.D.?]13
  98. CHAP. XI. How Sebbi, king of the same province, ended his life in a monastery. [694 A.D.]13
  99. CHAP. XII. How Haedde succeeded Leutherius in the bishopric of the West Saxons; how Cuichelm succeeded Putta in the bish13
  100. CHAP. XIII. How Bishop Wilfrid converted the province of the South Saxons to Christ. [681 A.D.]13
  101. CHAP. XIV. How a pestilence ceased through the intercession of King Oswald. [681-686 A.D.]13
  102. CHAP. XV. How King Caedwalla, king of the Gewissae, having slain Ethelwalch, wasted that Province with cruel slaughter a13
  103. CHAP. XVI. How the Isle of Wight received Christian inhabitants, and two royal youths of that island were killed immedia13
  104. CHAP. XVII. Of the Synod held in the plain of Haethfelth, Archbishop Theodore being president. [680 A.D.]14
  105. CHAP. XVIII. Of John, the precentor of the Apostolic see, who came into Britain to teach. [680 A. D.]14
  106. CHAP. XIX. How Queen Ethelthryth always preserved her virginity, and her body suffered no corruption in the grave. [660-14
  107. CHAP. XX. A Hymn concerning her.14
  108. CHAP. XXI. How Bishop Theodore made peace between the kings Egfrid and Etheired. [679 A. D.]14
  109. CHAP. XXII. How a certain captive's chains fell off when Masses were sung for Him. [679 A. D.]14
  110. CHAP. XXIII. Of the life and death of the Abbess Hilda. [614-680 A.D.]14
  111. CHAP. XXIV. That there was in her monastery a brother, on whom a gift of song was bestowed by Heaven. [680 A.D.]15
  112. CHAP. XXV. Of the vision that appeared to a certain man of God before the monastery of the city Coludi was burned down.15
  113. CHAP. XXVI. Of the death of the Kings Egfrid and Hiothere. [684-685 A. D.]15
  114. CHAP. XXVII. How Cuthbert, a man of God, was made bishop; and how he lived and taught whilst still in the monastic life.15
  115. CHAP. XXVIII. How the same St. Cuthbert, living the life of an Anchorite, by his prayers obtained a spring in a dry soil15
  116. CHAP. XXIX. How this bishop foretold that his own death was at hand to the anchorite Herebert. [687 A.D.]15
  117. CHAP. XXX. How his body was found altogether uncorrupted after it had been buried eleven years, and how his successor in16
  118. CHAP. XXXI. Of one that was cured of a palsy at his tomb.16
  119. CHAP. XXXII. Of one who was lately cured of a disease in his eye at the relics of St. Cuthbert.16
  120. BOOK V16
  121. CHAP. I. How Ethelwald, successor to Cuthbert, leading a hermit's life, calmed a tempest by his prayers when the brethre16
  122. CHAP. II. How Bishop John cured a dumb man by his blessing. [687 A.D.]16
  123. CHAP. III. How he healed a sick maiden by his prayers. [705 A.D.]16
  124. CHAP. IV. How he healed a thegn's wife that was sick, with holy water.16
  125. CHAP. V. How he likewise recalled by his prayers a thegn's servant from death.16
  126. CHAP. VII. How Caedwalla, king of the West Saxons, went to Rome to be baptised; and his successor Ini, also devoutly jou16
  127. CHAP. VIII. How, when Archbishop Theodore died, Bertwald succeeded him as archbishop, and, among many others whom he ord16
  128. CHAP. IX. How the holy man, Egbert, would have gone into Germany to preach, but could not; and how Wictbert went, but be16
  129. CHAP. X. How Wilbrord, preaching in Frisand, converted many to Christ; and how his two companions, the Hewalds, suffered17
  130. CHAP. XI. How the venerable Suidbert in Britain, and Wilbrord at Rome, were ordained bishops for Frisland. [692 A.D.]17
  131. CHAP. XII. How one in the province of the Northumbrians, rose from the dead, and related many things which he had seen,17
  132. CHAP. XIII. How another contrarywise before his death saw a book containing his sins, which was shown him by devils. [7017
  133. CHAP. XIV. How another in like manner, being at the point of death, saw the place of punishment appointed for him in Hel17
  134. CHAP. XV. How divers churches of the Scots, at the instance of Adamnan, adopted the Catholic Easter; and how the same wr17
  135. CHAP. XVI. The account given in the aforesaid book of the place of our Lord's Nativity, Passion, and Resurrection.18
  136. CHAP. XVII. What he likewise wrote of the place of our Lord's Ascension, and the tombs of the patriarchs.18
  137. CHAP. XVIII. How the South Saxons received Eadbert and Eolla, and the West Saxons, Daniel and Aldhelm, for their bishops18
  138. CHAP. XIX. How Coinred, king of the Mercians, and Offa, king of the East Saxons, ended their days at Rome, in the monast18
  139. CHAP. XX. How Albinus succeeded to the godly Abbot Hadrian, and Acca to Bishop Wilfrid. [709 A.D.]18
  140. CHAP. XXI. How the Abbot Ceolfrid sent master-builders to the King of the Picts to build a church, and with them an epis18
  141. CHAP. XXII. How the monks of Hii, and the monasteries subject to them, began to celebrate the canonical Easter at the pr19
  142. CHAP. XX III. Of the present state of the English nation, or of all Britain. [725-731 A.D.]19
  143. CHAP. XXIV. Chronological recapitulation of the whole work: also concerning the author himself.19
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