How God Made the English

Taal: nld
Categorie: EDUCATIE DIVERS

In this programme, divided into short chapters for use in the classroom, Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch explores what it means to be English and what has shaped English identity. He traces the roots of Englishness to an idea held by a seventh-century monk and historian, the Venerable Bede. Bede first came up with the notion of the English as a single people united by their belief in a Christian god - a chosen people. It was an idea he took lock, stock and barrel from the Jewish scriptures.