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... Bede , as generation followed generation , had few rivals to fear in the West . George Sarton , in the first volume ... Bede . " This was my last chance ' , he says , ' in this volume , of giving a Christian title to a chapter . ' Not ...
... Bede , as generation followed generation , had few rivals to fear in the West . George Sarton , in the first volume ... Bede . " This was my last chance ' , he says , ' in this volume , of giving a Christian title to a chapter . ' Not ...
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... Bede has , unconsciously , written his own autobiography . But it adds to our understanding of his character when we realize that Bede's world had already begun to decay when he was a boy of thirteen . Although for another twenty years ...
... Bede has , unconsciously , written his own autobiography . But it adds to our understanding of his character when we realize that Bede's world had already begun to decay when he was a boy of thirteen . Although for another twenty years ...
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... Bede's reputation grew mythical . He was sup- posed to have visited Rome in order to give the Curia the benefit of ... Bede had founded the University . Pope Martin V is alleged to have sent a legate to allay the quarrel . The legate is ...
... Bede's reputation grew mythical . He was sup- posed to have visited Rome in order to give the Curia the benefit of ... Bede had founded the University . Pope Martin V is alleged to have sent a legate to allay the quarrel . The legate is ...
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THE ENGLISH EPIC TRADITION Warton Lecture on English Poetry | 35 |
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