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Bede's Way resumes Bede's story twenty or so years after the previous book. He is now an esteemed and renowned scholar not without his detractors. In the pre-Reformation medieval world, the Gospel is mediated to a largely illiterate populace by an educated clerical class. So, the commissioning of a new translation of the Bible by Pope Gregory 1, based on the work of St. Jerome and before the advent of the printing press, was certainly an important and innovative event. Bede and his team of scribes set about hand writing three editions of what has been come to be known as the Codex Amiatinus (although Bede would not have known it by this title). Bede's Way traces the final journey of Abbot Ceolfrith when he set about transporting the Codex to Rome for the commissioning Pope's successor - Gregory the Second. Unfortunately neither Ceolfrith nor the Codex were to arrive at their destination and Bede's Way is an exploration of what may (or may not) have transpired. Although a little darker than the first two books, I hope you will be intrigued by my imaginations about the machinations of the early Church and the involvement of our hero Bede and his friends in this odyssey across Europe.
Bede's Way is also a footpath tracing the steps of Bede from
St. Paul's Monastery Jarrow to St. Peter's Monastery Monkwearmouth. Although I have walked part of the way many times, it is only recently that I walked the full length of the route with my son. The path weaves through a post industrial landscape and on through some beautiful countryside and seascapes. At the windmill on the Cleadon Hills (featured in the books) the mouths of both the Rivers Tyne and the Wear can be seen in all their glory. Sadly there is a noticeable lack of ships on these waterways joining the North Sea. I would urge everyone to walk this historic path.
For more information on the Bede's Way Walk.
St. Paul's Monastery Jarrow to St. Peter's Monastery Monkwearmouth. Although I have walked part of the way many times, it is only recently that I walked the full length of the route with my son. The path weaves through a post industrial landscape and on through some beautiful countryside and seascapes. At the windmill on the Cleadon Hills (featured in the books) the mouths of both the Rivers Tyne and the Wear can be seen in all their glory. Sadly there is a noticeable lack of ships on these waterways joining the North Sea. I would urge everyone to walk this historic path.
For more information on the Bede's Way Walk.