Bede: On the Nature of Things and on Times

by Bede

Book Overview

The Venerable Bede composed On the Nature of Things (De natura rerum) and On Times (De temporibus) at the outset of his career, about AD 703. Bede fashioned himself as a teacher to his people and his age, and these two short works show him selecting, editing, and clarifying a mass of difficult and sometimes dangerous material. He insisted that his reader understand the mathematical and physical basis of time, and though he was dependent on his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846314968
• ISBN13: 9781846314964
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.2"