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One man gives us the answer. To all schoolchildren of my generation, growing up in the 1950s, he will always be the Venerable Bede. Bede was not just the founding father of English history. Arguably, he was also the first consummate storyteller in all of English literature. He was not exactly well travelled. He spent virtually his entire life here in Jarrow. But in a few luminous lines he could conjure up not just the world of holy men and hermits, but the world of the great timbered halls of the Saxon kings, with their firelight and roasting meat, or the death throes of a great warhorse. It was this masterful grip on narrative that made Bede not just an authentic historian but also a brilliant propagandist for the early church. |
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yǒu yí ge rén gěi le wǒ men dá àn, duì yú wǒ men zhè yī dài chéng cháng yú 50 nián dài de xiǎo xué shēng lái shuō, néng gěi chū dá àn de zhǐ néng shì: kě jìng de bǐ dé. bǐ dé bù jǐn tuī dòng le yīng gé lán lì shǐ fā zhǎn de jìn chéng, bìng kě yǐ shuō zài suǒ yǒu wén xiàn zhōng, tā shì wán zhěng jì shù lì shǐ de dì yī rén. tā qí shí bìng wèi yóu lì guò xǔ duō dì fāng, jī hū yī shēng dōu zài jiǎ luó dù guò. dàn zhǐ xū yì diǎn xiàn suǒ, tā de nǎo hǎi zhōng biàn néng xiǎn xiàn bù guāng shì shèng rén yǔ yǐn shì, hái yǒu sā kè xùn guó wáng xióng wěi de huì kè dà táng zhī shàng gōu huǒ tōng míng de yàn huì, yǐ jí yīng yǒng de zhàn mǎ sǐ qián de bēi míng. biàn shì píng zhe rú cǐ xián shú yán jǐn de xù shì shǒu fǎ, ràng bǐ dé chéng wéi le yí gè kě xìn de lì shǐ xué jiā hé yī wèi zǎo qī jiào huì wěi dà de chuán bō zhě. |