Bède the Worthy one

Bède (Saxon Bæda or Beda ), known as Worthy the , born towards 672 in Northumbrie, Monk and Anglo-Saxon well-read man . Entered to the monastery of Jarrow, it passed its existence there, until its death in 735. He was proclaimed Doctors of the Church. He embraced all sciences of his time, was the founder of the Comput, and was the man more distinguished from his century. He refused the proposals of the pope Sergius who called it with Rome. He is the author of technical works which were to form the base of a medieval scientific knowledge, in addition to forty book, in a Latin impeccable. He makes watch of large a Culture, eclectic and homogeneous, that of the “Roman” monasteries according to the Concile of Whitby.

Biography

Bède the Worthy one was born in the Kingdom from Northumbrie. Towards 680 he is entrusted to the monastery of Wearmouth, founded a few years before by Benedict Biscop, then with the twin abbey of Jarrow, not far from the mouth of Tyde where he finishes his education there and where it east is ordered deacon.

Author of culture and Latin language, he is the author of a considerable work. Very popular in Europe during all the the Middle Ages, Bède is especially known today like the historian of the Angles by its main work, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum ( ecclesiastical Histoire of the English people ), completed in 731 or 732.

Beside its History , Bède, enthusiast of Patristic, wrote several works of mathematics and philosophy, in accordance with the courses of the traditional teaching of the Liberal arts ( trivium and Quadrivium ). Its writings are peppered with quotations of Pline the young person, of Virgile, Lucrèce, Ovide, etc It knew the Greek, and its Latin is fluid and pleasant, especially in his comments on the Ancien and the New Testament. He translated the Évangile according to holy Anglo-Saxon Jean in language .

He is the founder of the Comput, science of the dating and the calculation of the date of the mobile festivals, like Easter, in the Christian religion.

Bède is the witness of the birth of a true Anglo-Saxon Church on the island of Brittany: this one, recognized by Rome and supported by the apostolic seat vis-a-vis the Scottish Church, especially since the synod of Whitby in 664, became with the time of Bède a seedbed of missionary S which leave on the continent for évangéliser the Frisons and the Saxons.

Taking note of the evangelization - recent - of its people, Bède then writes a Histoire in which it describes at the same time the birth of this Church and the birth of the English people (through his orthodoxe faith), from the Christian point of view which is that of the hello: pagan parties of an end of the world, the English will turn over into Germanic for évangéliser theirs.

Link between the Historiography augustinienne, the scholarship of Isidore of Seville and the work of Othon de Freising, it interests the historian doubly, like source initially, but also like distance fellow-member. Because at his place the history is not only hagiography: at the school of Eusèbe de Césarée, prototype of the Christian historiographer, it seeks the political unit of the Anglo-Saxon Jerusalem news and for this reason devotes itself to a resequencing of a past founder. Such is the object of ecclesiastical sound Histoire of the English people , destiny of an island, people and a faith, Roman conquest with the christianization. Its style very contrasts with refinements with the mode of the Irish, rich in Néologisme S and ornaments of all nature. At his place all is spirit of synthesis, clearness and fluidity, although it handles the Allégorie and that it has the taste of the symbol. Marked by the writings Patristic S, its work seems deliberately impersonal, except ecclesiastical sound Histoire , written its veilless.

Bède accepted the qualifier of Vénérable only at the 9th century and was proclaimed Doctors of the Church in 1899 by Leon XIII. It is honoured the May 25th.

Work

It left a crowd of writings on the Histoire, the Rhétorique, the theology and the Philosophie.

In science, Bède is concentrated in particular on the study of the measurement of the Temps. In its Comput, Bède details two types of Calendrier S which it is the first in Occident to present, and introduced for the first time the system of dating occurring as reference of the Christ starting from calculations of Denys Small the.

Bède employed, for the interpretation of the Bible, the method of the Four directions of the Writing of the tradition Judaïque, transposed by Origène in the Christianisme.

Here a list of its works:

  • On the Orthography
  • On metric Art
  • On the Figures and the tropes
  • On the Calculation of time (ending in a universal chronology being completed in 725)
  • Three Lives of Holy Cuthbert (bishop of Lindisfarne)
  • History of the abbots of ecclesiastical Jarrow
  • History of the English people (Latin Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum ) dedicated in 731 to the king Dialectical Ceolwulf of Northumbrie
  • Manual of , which was one of the bases of the Scolastique

Manuscripts published by Pizzani. It is especially about Gloses on Boèce or Enchirias

  • ms. PVC 2269, Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, XIIIe century

  • ms. (olim Augsb. 40 B.S 46), München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
  • ms. clm 6361, München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
  • ms. Clm 14272, München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, origin with St - Emmeram de Regensburg (copy of the Hartvic monk), XIe century
  • ms. 18478, München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, originating in Tegernsee, dated 1050-1075
  • ms. clm 18480, München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
  • ms. Lat. 7200, Paris, National library of France, origin in the Fleury-on-Loire, IXe century
  • ms. 7297, Paris, National library of France, originating in the Fleury-on-Loire, Xe century
  • ms. Lat 10275, Paris, National library of France, Xe-XIe centuries
  • ms. lat. 13908, Paris, National library of France
  • ms. Lat. 13955, Paris, National library of France, originating in Corbie, IXe, Xe and XIe centuries
  • ms. Arundel 77, London, British Library, German origin, fine XIe century
  • ms. Harley 2688.8, London, British Library
  • ms. Royal 15 B IX, London, British Library
  • ms. C 128 inf., Milano, Biblioteca Ambrosiana
  • ms. Regulae lat. 1638, Roma Biblioteca Vaticana
  • ms. F. 9 (Admont 491), Chicago (It.), The Newberry Library, German or Austrian origin, XIIe century

See too

External bonds

  • '' Vie of Bede saint Worthy the '', iconography and orthodoxe hymnology, etc
  • Jésusmarie Site, life of Bède saint Worthy the

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