The Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England: Also the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. With Illustrative Notes, a Map of Anglo-Saxon England and a General IndexG. Bell, 1887 - 515 pages |
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Page xxv
... Canterbury are perceptible in the minute acquaintance which he exhibits not only with the topography of Kent , but with its condition at the time when he wrote ; and the same remark is appli- cable , although in a more limited degree ...
... Canterbury are perceptible in the minute acquaintance which he exhibits not only with the topography of Kent , but with its condition at the time when he wrote ; and the same remark is appli- cable , although in a more limited degree ...
Page xxvii
... Canterbury to be omitted in its annals . To the latter we are indebted for the history of the recon version of Saxony , -an event in which the monks of Last- ingham were interested , as it was accomplished by their founder Cedd . From ...
... Canterbury to be omitted in its annals . To the latter we are indebted for the history of the recon version of Saxony , -an event in which the monks of Last- ingham were interested , as it was accomplished by their founder Cedd . From ...
Page xxviii
... Canterbury . They relate to the history of the kingdoms of Kent and Northumbria . The letters of archbishops Lau- rentius and Honorius , concerning the proper time for cele- brating Easter , were probably furnished by the same indi ...
... Canterbury . They relate to the history of the kingdoms of Kent and Northumbria . The letters of archbishops Lau- rentius and Honorius , concerning the proper time for cele- brating Easter , were probably furnished by the same indi ...
Page xxxii
... Canterbury , is placed to the year 1031 , but evidently written after the con- quest , and left unfinished . The Saxon part ends in the yea : 1070 , with the words , - bletsungan underfeng ; after de- scribing at full length the dispute ...
... Canterbury , is placed to the year 1031 , but evidently written after the con- quest , and left unfinished . The Saxon part ends in the yea : 1070 , with the words , - bletsungan underfeng ; after de- scribing at full length the dispute ...
Page xxxviii
... Canterbury , at whose instigation he undertook the work ; who sent by Nothelm , afterwards archbishop of that province , a full account of all ecclesiastical transactions in Kent , and in the contiguous districts , from the first ...
... Canterbury , at whose instigation he undertook the work ; who sent by Nothelm , afterwards archbishop of that province , a full account of all ecclesiastical transactions in Kent , and in the contiguous districts , from the first ...
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