Bede

Bede (673-735 CE)

“If history records good things of good men,

the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate

what is good: or if it records evil of wicked men,

the devout, religious listener or reader is encouraged

to avoid all that is sinful and perverse and to follow

what he knows to be good and pleasing to God.”

• From Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People (and relevant letters), translated by Leo Sherley-Pride, R. E. Latham and D. H. Farmer (Penguin Classics, 2003).  

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