600–700 AD
The seventh century AD includes important religious, historical, literary, and cultural works from Islamic, Chinese, Anglo-Saxon, and Byzantine traditions. This section highlights selections from the Koran, Chinese prose literature of the T'ang period, Fredegar's Chronicle, Bede's historical writings, and Barlaam and Joasaph.
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The Venerable Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of England; Also the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
With illustrative notes, a map of Anglo-Saxon England and a general index. Edited by J. A. Giles. Half-title: Bohn's Antiquarian Library. The translation of Bede is based on that of Stevens (1723) and that of the Chronicle on an unprinted…
The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation
By the Venerable Bede. Introduction by Vida D. Scudder. Half-title: Everyman's Library, ed. by Ernest Rhys (History, no. 479). “The life and miracles of Saint Cuthbert, bishop of Lindisfarne”: p. 286–348; “The lives of the holy abbots of Weremouth and…
Baedae Opera Historica
With an English translation by J. E. King. Half-title: The Loeb Classical Library.
Chinese Prose Literature of the T’ang Period, A.D. 618–906
By E. D. Edwards. Half-title: Probsthain's Oriental Series, vol. XXIII–XXIV. The anthology “T'ang tai ts'ung shu” was chosen as a basis for this study. Bibliography: v. 1, p. 215; v. 2, p. 411. “Chinese bibliography”: v. 1, p. 216; v.…
The Koran: A New Translation and Presentation
By Henry Mercier. Translated from the French language by Lucien Tremlett. Illustrated by Si Abdelkrim Wezzani. Arabic text, phonetic transcription, and English translation.
The Fourth Book of the Chronicle of Fredegar, with Its Continuations
Translated from the Latin with introduction and notes by J. M. Wallace-Hadrill. Medieval Classics. Latin and English on opposite pages numbered in duplicate; added t.-p.: Fredegarii chronicorum liber quartus, cum continuationibus. Bibliographical footnotes. Main entry: Fredegarii chronicon.
St. John Damascene: Barlaam and Ioasaph
With an English translation by the Rev. G. R. Woodward and H. Mattingly. Half-title: The Loeb Classical Library, ed. by T. E. Page and W. H. D. Rouse. Greek and English on opposite pages. “Down to quite recent times the…