![]() ![]() Bede bases much of the history in the first two books off of secondary sources written about events one hundred or more years before he lived. This portion, which spans the period from the first century AD to 633, can be seen as the initial construction of the church. The first theme, covered in the first two books of the five-book Ecclesiastical History, is Christianity’s arrival in Britain and proliferation throughout the island. Bede’s book can be divided into two parts, which mirror the stages of the building of the Lindisfarne church. The story of the strengthened church is reflective of Bede’s account of the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, or Ecclesiastical History of the English People, finished in 731. Peter the Apostle, and had the roof and walls reinforced by plates of lead. He built the church in an early Irish style, “not of stone, out of hewn oak, and covered it with reeds.” Later in the seventh century, Theodore of Tarsus, the Archbishop of Canterbury whom the pope had personally sent to Britain to promote the “true faith,” dedicated the church at Lindisfarne to St. In 651 AD, a Celtic Christian priest named Finan built a modest church on the small island of Lindisfarne in the far north of England. Stanford University, Undergraduate Thesis (2011) ![]() ![]() Bede’s Perspective and Purpose in the Ecclesiastical History of the English People ![]()
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