Bede: On the Nature of Things and On Times by Bede PAPERBACK 9781846314964

Bede: On the Nature of Things and On Times\nby Bede\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Bede\nTitle: Bede: On the Nature of Things and On Times\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History and Archaeology\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press\nPublication year: 2010\nEdition: ANN\nISBN-13: 9781846314964\nISBN-10: 1846314968\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe 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 d.