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Dec 13, 2010, 1:28:00 AM12/13/10
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The beginnings of English intellectual history
Posted on December 13, 2010 by Robert Henderson
English intellectual history is a long one. It can reasonably be
said to begin in the early eighth century with Bede’s
Ecclesiastical History of the English, which amongst other things
firmly establishes the English as a people before England as a
kingdom existed (“At present there are in Britain…five languages
and four nations – English, British, Irish and Picts…” Book One).
Posted on December 13, 2010 by Robert Henderson
English intellectual history is a long one. It can reasonably be
said to begin in the early eighth century with Bede’s
Ecclesiastical History of the English, which amongst other things
firmly establishes the English as a people before England as a
kingdom existed (“At present there are in Britain…five languages
and four nations – English, British, Irish and Picts…” Book One).
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