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Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)

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2023 marks the 1350th anniversary of the birth of the Venerable Bede, the greatest scholar of the post-Roman West. How did a boy entering a Northumbrian monastery at the age of 7 come to write the history of a new nation - Anglo-Saxon England - and create an identity for a new Church and people? How did he write a guide to the holy sites in the near East that was still in use as a practical travellers' guide 1000 years later? How did he invent tide timetables and theorise the gravitational pull of the moon? What was his role in the making of manuscript masterpieces such as the Codex Amiatinus and the Lindisfarne Gospel and in translating the Bible into English? We look at Bede's life, his work and the world that he lived in. 

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Course dates

23 Jul 2023 to 29 Jul 2023

Course duration

1 week

Apply by

25 Jun 2023

Course director

Academic Directors, Course Directors and Tutors are subject to change, when necessary.

Venue

International Summer Programme
Sidgwick Site
Cambridge
United Kingdom

Qualifications / Credits

Credits dependent on home institution

Teaching sessions

Meetings: 5

Course code

W35Am27