Unity and reform: learning, missions, and a fully Christian England take shape.
Chapter 1 The hermit Ethelwald, Cuthbert’s successor, calms a storm by his prayer when some brethren are in danger at sea
Chapter 2 The blessing of Bishop John cures a dumb man
Chapter 3 Bishop John heals a sick girl by his prayers
Chapter 4 The Bishop cures a thegn’s wife with holy water
Chapter 5 The Bishop’s prayers recall the servant of a thegn from death’s door
Chapter 6 By his prayers and blessing, Bishop John saves from death one of his clergy who had been bruised in a fall
Chapter 7 Cadwalla, King of the West Saxons, goes to Rome for Baptism: his successor Ini also makes a pilgrimage of devotion to the shrine of the Apostles [a.d. 688]
Chapter 8 On the death of Theodore, Bertwald becomes archbishop [a.d. 690]: among bishops consecrated by him is Tobias, Bishop of Rochester, a man of great learning
Chapter 9 Egbert, a holy man, plans to travel to Germany and preach, but is prevented. Subsequently Wictbert goes, but meeting with no success, returns to his native Ireland
Chapter 10 Willibrord preaches in Frisia and converts many to Christ: his companions the Hewalds suffer martyrdom [a.d. 692]
Chapter 11 The venerable Swidbert in Britain, and Willibrord in Rome, are consecrated bishops for Frisia [a.d 692]
Chapter 12 A man in the Province of the Northumbrians returns from the dead, and tells of the many dreadful and many desirable things that he saw
Chapter 13 Devils show another man a record of his sins before his death
Chapter 14 Another man about to die sees the place of punishment reserved for him in Hell
Chapter 15 Under Adamnan’s influence, many churches of the Irish adopt the Catholic Easter. He writes a book on the Holy Places [c. a.d. 703]
Chapter 16 Descriptions from this book of the sites of our Lord’s Birth, Passion, and Resurrection
Chapter 17 The site of our Lord’s Ascension, and the tombs of the patriarchs
Chapter 18 The South Saxons receive as their bishops Eadbert and Ealla, and the West Saxons Daniel and Aldhelm. The writings of Aldhelm [c a.d. 705]
Chapter 19 Coenred, King of the Mercians, and Offa, King of the East Saxons, end their days in Rome as monks. The life and death of Bishop Wilfrid [a.d. 709]
Chapter 20 Albinus succeeds the devout Abbot Hadrian, and Acca succeeds to Wilfrid’s bishopric [a.d. 709]
Chapter 21 Abbot Ceolfrid sends church architects to the King of the Pictst and with them a letter about the Catholic Easter and tonsure [c.a.d. 710]
Chapter 22 The monks of Iona and the monasteries under its jurisdiction begin to adopt the canonical Easter at the preaching of Egbert [a.d. 716]
Chapter 23 The present state of the English nation and the rest of Britain [a.d. 725–31]
Chapter 24 A chronological summary of the whole book, and a personal note on the author