Bede revised by r e latham (2 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Reprint. Paperback. Translated and with an Introduction by Leo Sherley-Price. This wonderfully alive tapestry of Saxon England and Celtic Britain writtin in A.D. 731 still has the power to transport us back to the forests, fens, and mountains, and to the problems which men faced furing these crucially formative years when this land had still to be wrought into one entity. Leo Sherley-Price has well succeeded in his aim of producing an accurate and readable version of Bede's work in modern English and, as he remarks in his introduction, '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'. 364 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

8vo(24.2x15.6) HB xxix+328pp illus. Reddish-brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to false black labels on spine & gilt design to front board-fine. No dust jacket but housed in a black slipcase-fine. Internally mint. Presents as new. (961g).