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Bede (/ b iː d /; Old English: Bēda; 672/3 – 26 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (Latin: Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk, author and scholar. He was one of the greatest teachers and writers during the Early Middle Ages , and his most famous work, Ecclesiastical History of the English ...
Folio 3v from the St Petersburg Bede. The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Latin: Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum), written by Bede in about AD 731, is a history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England generally; its main focus is on the conflict between the pre-Schism Roman Rite and Celtic Christianity.
Bede's life and work are celebrated through the annual Jarrow Lecture. [25] He organised the Bedan Conference of 1973, authored the catalogue for the 1974 Sunderland Exhibition on Bede, and edited a book of essays for the thirteenth centenary of Bede in 1976. [18] His edits of the proceedings, were presented under the title "Famulus Christi". [26]
Early 19th century map showing the 18th-century barracks, battery and piers to the east, with the bridge and nearby 'Pann Field' to the west. During the War of Jenkins' Ear a pair of gun batteries were built (in 1742 and 1745) on the shoreline to the south of the South Pier, to defend the river from attack (a further battery was built on the ...
The historical works of Venerable Bede (1845). [178] Translated from the Latin by J. A. Giles. The Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical history of England: also the Anglo-Saxon chronicle (1847). [179] With illustrative notes, a map of Anglo-Saxon England, and a general index. Edited by J. A. Giles,et. al. List of works by Bede. Bedershi, Jedaiah ben ...
St Paul's Monastery The reconstructed Anglo-Saxon farm. Jarrow Hall (formerly Bede's World) is a museum in Jarrow, South Tyneside, England which celebrates the life of the Venerable Bede; a monk, author and scholar who lived in at the Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Wearmouth-Jarrow, a double monastery at Jarrow and Monkwearmouth, (today part of Sunderland), England.
Chroniclers such as Bede (672/3–735), with his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, and Gildas (c. 500–570), with his De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, were figures in the development of indigenous Latin literature, mostly ecclesiastical, in the centuries following the withdrawal of the Roman Empire around the year 410.
Written in southern England in the second half of the 8th century. Plummer asserted that this was written in Durham, but Colgrave disputes this. O. Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Hatton 43 (4106). Early 11th century. The following are m text manuscripts. M. Cambridge, Cambridge University Library Kk. 5. 16. CLA II, no. 139. Written in Northumbria ...