Questions tagged [beda]
Bēda Venerābilis, or the Venerable Bede (673–735); author of Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
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What does Bede's phrase, "suae genti ducatum praebebat, obtinuit," mean?
In Bede's Ecclesiastical History, 2.5, there's a phrase that appears to be the subject of some debate:
Nam primus imperium huiusmodi Aelli rex Australium Saxonum; secundus Caelin rex Occidentalium ...
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"Miserando atque eligendo"
There seem to be two schools of thought about the meaning of the motto on Pope Francis's coat of arms:
miserando atque eligendo
These words are taken from the 21st homily of the Venerable Bede, ...
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