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The big ideas which form the intellectual agenda of our age are illuminated by some of the best minds. Melvyn Bragg and three guests investigate the history of ideas and debate their application in modern life. |
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THE VENERABLE BEDE
Find out more about The Venerable Bede by using our research page.
In 731 AD, in the most far-flung corner of the known universe, a book was written that represented a height of scholarship and erudition that was not to be equalled for centuries to come. It was called the Ecclesiastical History of the Angle Peoples and its author was Bede. A long way from Rome, in a monastery at Jarrow in the North East of England, his works cast a light across the whole of Western Civilisation and Bede became a bestseller, an internationally renowned scholar and eventually a saint. His Ecclesiastical History has been in copy or in print ever since it was written in the eighth century and his edition of the Bible remains the Catholic Church's most authoritative Latin version to this day.
How did Bede achieve such ascendancy from such an obscure part of Christendom? And what was so remarkable about his work?
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Richard Gameson, Reader in Medieval History at the University of Kent at Canterbury
Sarah Foot, Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Sheffield
Michelle Brown, a manuscript specialist from the British Library
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