Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum

1475 · Book · Saint Bede the Venerable, Thomas Miller, J. A. Giles

“BRitain, a noted Ifland in the Ocean, formerly call'd Albion; lies at a confiderable Diftance to the North and Weft from Germany, France and Spain.”

An accurate and readable version of Bede's work in modern English where "we realize even more clearly that the past is not dead and done with, but a force to be reckoned with, silently moulding the present and the future." [Introduction]. by Saint Bede the Venerable, Thomas Miller