Prepared for the press by Thomas Charles-Edwards, helped by Patrick Wormald and others, this book completes the new Bede, and is prefaced by a paper characteristic of Professor Wallace-Hadrill on `Bede and Plummer'. Bede was a monk and scholar in Northumbria 1 who wrote multiple works on history, exegesis, 2 hagiography. Wallace-Hadrill devoted the last years of his life to a new commentary, one of the finest and most mature fruits of his scholarship - more succinct than Plummer, tauter, more relevant, above all drawing together and adding to the findings of a galaxy of modern scholars. Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People Introduction. Mynors's masterly text and textual introduction replaced much of Charles Plummer's great edition of 1896 but the historical notes did not attempt to match in scale and detail Plummer's second volume of commentary. In five books, it tells the story of his country from Julius Caesars attempted invasion of Britain in 55 BC to the year in which Bede finished writing, AD 731. In 1969 the Clarendon Press published the new edition in Oxford Medieval Texts, edited by Bertram Colgrave and Sir Roger Mynors. The Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (‘Ecclesiastical History of the English People’) was Bedes greatest achievement. Completed in 731, it comprises in a single flowing narrative a coherent history of the conversion of the English peoples to Christianity, and the story of the island kingdoms and churches from the 590s to the early eighth century, prefaced by a sketch of the earlier history of Britain. Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People is recognized as a masterpiece among the historical literature of medieval England and Europe.
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