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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 growth of Christianity.
No other local written records survive until much later. By the time of Bede, more than a century after Gildas, Anglo-Saxon kingdoms had come to dominate most of what is now modern England. Bede and other later Welsh and Anglo-Saxon authors apparently believed that the kingdoms of their time had always been distinctly Anglo-Saxon.
DeGregorio, Bede: On Ezra and Nehemiah (2006). Commentary on the Prayer of Habakkuk Hudson, CCSL CXIX B (1983), pp. 381–409. Connolly, On Tobit and the Canticle of Habakkuk (1997), pp. 65–95. Commentary on Tobit Hurst, CCSL CXIX B (1983), pp. 3–19. Connolly, Bede: On Tobit and the Canticle of Habakkuk (1997), pp. 39–63. Commentary on Mark
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 ...
By the middle of the century the town was probably the premier shipbuilding centre in Britain. [35] By 1788 Sunderland was Britain's fourth largest port (by measure of tonnage) after London, Newcastle and Liverpool; among these it was the leading coal exporter (though it did not rival Newcastle in terms of home coal trade). [ 34 ]
Bede (c. 672–735) produced a translation of the Gospel of John into Old English, which he is said to have prepared shortly before his death. This translation is lost; we know of its existence from Cuthbert of Jarrow's account of Bede's death. [6] The Vespasian Psalter [7] (~850–875) is an interlinear gloss of the Book of Psalms in the ...
Dom Bede Camm, O.S.B., (26 December 1864 – 8 September 1942) was an English Benedictine monk and martyrologist. He is best known for his many works on the English Catholic martyrs, which helped to keep their memories alive in the newly reemerging Catholic Church of Victorian England .