1Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (=HE), Ch.Plummer (ed.), Baedae Opera Historica, 2 vol., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1896; B.Colgrave & R.A.B.Mynors (ed. & trans.), Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1969. I basically use the edition by Colgrave and Mynors.
2On the notion of the term “computus” or “computation”, see Ch.W.Jones, Bedae Opera de Temporibus (hereafter BOT), Cambridge (MA), Medieval Academy of America, 1943, p.6-113; F.Wallis, Bede: The Reckoning of Time (hereafter Bede), Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 1999, p.xviii-ci, p.425-29.
3Concerning the reckoning of time and relevant subjects in Bede’s period, Jones’s study mentioned above (note2) is no doubt the starting point. Jones concentrates on the study of the computus, and this tradition is followed by other scholars. The studies of Bede’s accounts in the Historia ecclesiastica are found also in P.Grosjean,
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Jack D. Ellis is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Born in Sulphur, Oklahoma, he spent his early years in Avery, Texas before moving back to Oklahoma, where he finished his secondary studies at Lawton Senior High School in 1960. He then graduated from Baylor University and in 1967 received a doctorate in history from Tulane University. Ellis taught for twenty-five years at the University of Delaware and was chair of the Department of History during his final years there. He then joined the faculty of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where he had accepted the position of dean of the College of Liberal Arts. As Professor of History, he helped to organize in collaboration with Alabama A&M University a distinguished lecture series on the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, which featured first-hand accounts from the movement's aging activists. Between 1997 and 2004, Ellis completed an oral history project in collaboration with the Medical Archives of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, recording, transcribing, and editing fif