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The Age of Bede

Bede

Church History
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Chapters 144
  1. Introduction ≈ 92 min
  2. Bede: Life Of Cuthbert ≈ 5 min
  3. CHAPTER 1: How the holy child Cuthbert was warned by an infantand told that he would be a bishop ≈ 5 min
  4. CHAPTER 2: How he was lamed by a disease of the knee andimmediately cured by an angel ≈ 3 min
  5. CHAPTER 3: How the winds changed at his prayer and the rafts, whichhad been carried away, were brought back safe to land ≈ 4 min
  6. CHAPTER 4: How, when he was with some shepherds, he saw the soul ofSt Aidan borne heavenward by angels ≈ 3 min
  7. CHAPTER 5: How God provided food for him on a journey ≈ 4 min
  8. CHAPTER 6: Boisil’s prophecy. Cuthbert arrives at Melrose, is welcomed and remains there ≈ 3 min
  9. CHAPTER 7: How he entertained an angel and, in seeking to give him earthly food, was rewarded in turn with bread from he ≈ 5 min
  10. CHAPTER 8: How Cuthbert was cured of a disease, and how the dying Boisil prophesied what was in store for him ≈ 5 min
  11. CHAPTER 9: How Cuthbert was most assiduous in preaching the word ≈ 3 min
  12. CHAPTER 10: How after he had spent the whole night praying in the sea, animals ministered unto him as he came out of the ≈ 4 min
  13. CHAPTER 11: How he promised a calm sea to some sailors cut off by a storm and how his prayer for food was answered ≈ 4 min
  14. CHAPTER 12: How on a journey he foretold that provisions would be brought by an eagle ≈ 3 min
  15. CHAPTER 13: How, while preaching to the people, he foresaw that the devil would send a phantom fire, and how he put it o ≈ 2 min
  16. CHAPTER 14: How Cuthbert checked the flames of a house that was really on fire ≈ 4 min
  17. CHAPTER 15: How he exorcized the wife of a sheriff even before he reached her ≈ 4 min
  18. CHAPTER 16: How he lived and taught in the monastery at Lindisfarne ≈ 7 min
  19. CHAPTER 17: How he banished demons from the Farne Island and built himself a dwelling-place there ≈ 4 min
  20. CHAPTER l8: How his prayer brought forth water out of the dry land. His life as a hermit ≈ 3 min
  21. CHAPTER 19: How, at a word, he drove the birds away from the crops he had sown with his own hands ≈ 3 min
  22. CHAPTER 20: How the ravens said their prayers and brought the man of God a gift to make up for the harm they had done ≈ 2 min
  23. CHAPTER 21: How even the sea served him ≈ 3 min
  24. CHAPTER 22: How he exhorted many who came to him to the ways of salvation and pointed out the weaknesses in the snares o ≈ 3 min
  25. CHAPTER 23: How Abbess Aelfflaed and one of her nuns were cured by his cincture ≈ 4 min
  26. CHAPTER 24: What he predicted about King Ecgfrith in answer to Aelfflaed. He foretells his own consecration ≈ 6 min
  27. CHAPTER 25: How as bishop elect he cured the ailing servant of one of the king’s bodyguards with holy water ≈ 2 min
  28. CHAPTER 26: His way of life as a bishop ≈ 1 min
  29. CHAPTER 27: How he saw in spirit, though absent from the scene, the destruction of King Ecgfrith, as he had predicted ≈ 6 min
  30. CHAPTER 28: How he predicted his own death to Hereberht the hermit ≈ 3 min
  31. CHAPTER 29: He sends a priest with holy water to the wife of a bodyguard of the king ≈ 3 min
  32. CHAPTER 30: He cures a girl of pains in the head and side by anointing her with oil ≈ 1 min
  33. CHAPTER 31: How a sick man was healed with bread blessed by Cuthbert ≈ 2 min
  34. CHAPTER 32: How, on a journey, he restored to life a youth who was brought to him dying ≈ 2 min
  35. CHAPTER 33: How, when the plague was on, he restored a dying boy to his mother ≈ 2 min
  36. CHAPTER 34: How he beheld being carried heavenwards the soul of a man who had been killed in a fall from a tree ≈ 5 min
  37. CHAPTER 35: How he gave water the flavour of wine simply by tasting it ≈ 2 min
  38. CHAPTER 36: How certain brethren who had disobeyed him were held back by a storm at sea ≈ 4 min
  39. CHAPTER 37: The temptations he suffered while ill and the instructions he gave about his burial just before he died ≈ 11 min
  40. CHAPTER 38: How, though sick himself, he healed his servant of diarrhoea ≈ 3 min
  41. CHAPTER 39: His last commands to the brethren and how, having received the viaticum, he yielded up his spirit in prayer ≈ 4 min
  42. CHAPTER 40: How, in accordance with the prophecy contained in the psalm they sang as he died, the monks of Lindisfarne w ≈ 3 min
  43. CHAPTER 41: How a lotion made from the soil on to which the water used to wash Cuthbert’s body had been poured was used ≈ 4 min
  44. CHAPTER 42: How his body was found incorrupted eleven years later ≈ 5 min
  45. CHAPTER 43: Eadberht is buried in Cuthbert’s tomb beneath a sarcophagus containing Cuthbert’s remains ≈ 1 min
  46. CHAPTER 44: A sick man is cured by praying at the tomb ≈ 2 min
  47. CHAPTER 45: How his shoes healed a paralytic ≈ 4 min
  48. CHAPTER 46: How Felgild the hermit was cured of a swelling in the face by some of the covering of Cuthbert’s cell wall ≈ 5 min
  49. Eddius Stephanus: Life of Wilfrid ≈ 3 min
  50. CHAPTER 1: The birth of Wilfrid and its portent [634] ≈ 2 min
  51. CHAPTER 2: He chooses God in boyhood [648] ≈ 3 min
  52. CHAPTER 3: He longs to visit the threshold of St Peter, Prince of the Apostles ≈ 2 min
  53. CHAPTER 4: Archbishop Dalfinus makes him most welcome ≈ 2 min
  54. CHAPTER 5: How he reaches the See of St Peter in safety ≈ 2 min
  55. CHAPTER 6: He receives the Roman form of tonsure from Archbishop Dalfinus. The archbishop’s martyrdom [658] ≈ 3 min
  56. CHAPTER 7: The welcome he receives from Alhfrith ≈ 3 min
  57. CHAPTER 8: Alhfrith gives him the monastery at Ripon [c. 660] ≈ 1 min
  58. CHAPTER 9: Bishop Agilberht ordains him priest [c. 663] ≈ 2 min
  59. CHAPTER 10: The conflict between St Wilfrid the priest and Bishop Colman over the Easter Question [663/4; cf. Bede.Histo ≈ 5 min
  60. CHAPTER 11: Wilfrid is elected to the episcopacy [664] ≈ 4 min
  61. CHAPTER 12: How he comes to be consecrated in Gaul [664] ≈ 2 min
  62. CHAPTER 13: The Lord delivers our bishop and his companions from the sea and from the hands of pagans [666; cf. Bede iv, ≈ 4 min
  63. CHAPTER 14: Chad, meanwhile, is ordained to Wilfrid’s see [666] ≈ 2 min
  64. CHAPTER 15: He regains his see [669] ≈ 2 min
  65. CHAPTER 16: The restoration of the church at York [669–71] ≈ 2 min
  66. CHAPTER 17: The building and dedication of the church at Ripon [671–8] ≈ 4 min
  67. CHAPTER 18: He restores a child to life ≈ 4 min
  68. CHAPTER 19: The king’s victory over the fierce Picts[671–3] ≈ 2 min
  69. CHAPTER 20: Ecgfrith’s victory over the king of Mercia [673–5] ≈ 2 min
  70. CHAPTER 21: Our bishop’s virtue ≈ 3 min
  71. CHAPTER 22: The building of the house of God at Hexham [672–8] ≈ 2 min
  72. CHAPTER 23: He heals a half-dead boy ≈ 2 min
  73. CHAPTER 24: How envy is stirred up against our bishop and he is driven from his see [678] ≈ 4 min
  74. CHAPTER 25: Bishop Winfrid of Lichfield is robbed ≈ 2 min
  75. CHAPTER 26: His journey takes him to Friesland ≈ 2 min
  76. CHAPTER 27: The king refuses the price set upon Wilfrid ≈ 2 min
  77. CHAPTER 28: Wilfrid is welcomed by kings Dagobert and Perctarit [679] ≈ 4 min
  78. CHAPTER 29: Our bishop’s letters are received by the most blessed pope Agatho and the holy synod[679] ≈ 5 min
  79. CHAPTER 30: The text of the petition ≈ 5 min
  80. CHAPTER 31: Pope Agatho’s answer ≈ 1 min
  81. CHAPTER 32: The synod’s reply ≈ 3 min
  82. CHAPTER 33: OUR bishop returns [680] ≈ 4 min
  83. CHAPTER 34: The king flouts the decisions of the Holy See [680] ≈ 3 min
  84. CHAPTER 35: Wilfrid encourages his brethren ≈ 2 min
  85. CHAPTER 36: Of the house lit up by God ≈ 3 min
  86. CHAPTER 37: He heals a woman ≈ 2 min
  87. CHAPTER 38: His chains fall off him ≈ 2 min
  88. CHAPTER 39: How the queen falls ill and is healed [681] ≈ 3 min
  89. CHAPTER 40: Wilfrid is welcomed by Berhtwald [681] ≈ 2 min
  90. CHAPTER 41: The conversion of the pagans of Selsey [681–6: cf. Bede, History iv, 13J ≈ 4 min
  91. CHAPTER 42: Ceadwalla becomes king[686;cf. Bede, History iv, 16] ≈ 2 min
  92. CHAPTER 43: How peace was made with Archbishop Theodore [686–7] ≈ 6 min
  93. CHAPTER 44: King Aldfrith receives our bishop [686–7] ≈ 1 min
  94. CHAPTER 45: Enmity is stirred up between Wilfrid and Aldfrith [691–2] ≈ 2 min
  95. CHAPTER 46: The council at Austerfield2 [702–3: not in Bede] ≈ 2 min
  96. CHAPTER 47: He discovers their trap ≈ 7 min
  97. CHAPTER 48: Wilfrid returns to Aethilred [c. 703] ≈ 1 min
  98. CHAPTER 49: We are excommunicated ≈ 1 min
  99. CHAPTER 50: His voyage to Rome [c. 703] ≈ 3 min
  100. CHAPTER 51: The text of the petition ≈ 5 min
  101. CHAPTER 52: Pope John declares that the writings of his predecessors are to be examined ≈ 2 min
  102. CHAPTER 53: [The appeal is heard?704] ≈ 9 min
  103. CHAPTER 54: [Letter of Pope John] ≈ 6 min
  104. CHAPTER 55: Wilfrid is ordered to return home and brings back the holy relics [704] ≈ 2 min
  105. CHAPTER 56: Our patron falls sick and St Michael appears to him [705] ≈ 3 min
  106. CHAPTER 57: The return crossing [705] ≈ 3 min
  107. CHAPTER 58: King Aldfrith despises him and meets his doom ≈ 2 min
  108. CHAPTER 59: [Death of AIdfrith – 704/5] ≈ 2 min
  109. CHAPTER 60: [Synod of Nidd, 706] ≈ 6 min
  110. CHAPTER 61: [Peace at last] ≈ 1 min
  111. CHAPTER 62: [Wilfrid’s illness – c. 708] ≈ 3 min
  112. CHAPTER 63: [Last instructions – 709] ≈ 3 min
  113. CHAPTER 64: [Future of his monasteries] ≈ 2 min
  114. CHAPTER 65: [Death of Wilfrid, 709] ≈ 3 min
  115. CHAPTER 66: [Burial of Wilfrid] ≈ 5 min
  116. CHAPTER 67: [The fire at Oundle] ≈ 2 min
  117. CHAPTER 68: The sign of the rainbow arc ≈ 3 min
  118. CHAPTER 1 ≈ 3 min
  119. CHAPTER 2 ≈ 2 min
  120. CHAPTER 3 ≈ 3 min
  121. CHAPTER 4 ≈ 2 min
  122. CHAPTER 5 ≈ 2 min
  123. CHAPTER 6 ≈ 3 min
  124. CHAPTER 7 ≈ 3 min
  125. CHAPTER 8 ≈ 5 min
  126. CHAPTER 9 ≈ 2 min
  127. CHAPTER 10 ≈ 1 min
  128. CHAPTER 11 ≈ 5 min
  129. CHAPTER 12 ≈ 1 min
  130. CHAPTER 13 ≈ 3 min
  131. CHAPTER 14 ≈ 5 min
  132. CHAPTER 15 ≈ 4 min
  133. CHAPTER 16 ≈ 2 min
  134. CHAPTER 17 ≈ 3 min
  135. CHAPTER 18 ≈ 3 min
  136. CHAPTER 19 ≈ 3 min
  137. CHAPTER 20 ≈ 1 min
  138. CHAPTER 21 ≈ 2 min
  139. CHAPTER 22 ≈ 2 min
  140. CHAPTER 23 ≈ 1 min
  141. The Anonymous History of Abbot Ceolfrith ≈ 48 min
  142. The Voyage of St Brendan ≈ 113 min
  143. Further Reading ≈ 2 min
  144. Index ≈ 19 min
AuthorBede
LanguageEnglish
EraMedieval
CategoriesChurch History · Christian Classics
Length150 chapters · ≈ 11 h 50 min read
FormatsWeb Book · EPUB

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