Andy Orchard

Venerable father of English history

Henrietta Leyser’s brisk journey through the seven kingdoms of Dark Age Britain centres on the Venerable Bede, the Northumbrian monk who famously wrote his Ecclesiastical History of the English People while remaining entirely cloistered for 60 years

issue 15 August 2015

  • Beda: A Journey Through the Seven Kingdoms in the Age of Bede

    Henrietta Leyser

    Head of Zeus, pp. 287

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