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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.
Mercia (/ ˈ m ɜːr s i ə,-ʃ ə,-s i ə /, [1] [2] Old English: Miercna rīċe, "kingdom of the border people"; Latin: Merciorum regnum) was one of the three main Anglic kingdoms founded after Sub-Roman Britain was settled by Anglo-Saxons in an era called the Heptarchy.
Around the year 653, Peada was made king of the Middle Angles by his father, Penda. Bede, describing Peada as "an excellent youth, and most worthy of the title and person of a king", wrote that he sought to marry Ealhflæd of Bernicia, the daughter of King Oswiu of Northumbria; Oswiu, however, made this conditional upon Peada's baptism and conversion to Christianity, along with the Middle ...
He placed his eldest son, Peada, in charge of the Middle Angles as sub-king. [1] Bede specifies the Middle Angles as the target of a four-man Christian mission accepted by Peada, who converted to Christianity, partly in order to wed Alchflaed, the daughter of King Oswiu of Northumbria. [2] This mission arrived in 653 and included St Cedd. [1]
Bede's text is followed by a life of St. Kenelm, the patron saint of the abbey; hence the copy was probably made for Winchcomb. Colgrave obtained both this manuscript and Royal MS 13 C. v, and compared them to determine if it were a copy of the British Library manuscript, but was unable to find any evidence to settle the question.
How AP covered the D-Day landings and lost photographer Bede Irvin in the battle for Normandy By VALERIE KOMOR Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When Associated Press correspondent Don Whitehead arrived with other journalists in southern England to cover the Allies' imminent D-Day invasion of Normandy, a U.S. commander offered them a no ...
St. Bede, or the Venerable Bede, a Benedictine monk, was one of the greatest teachers and writers of the Early Middle Ages, and an important scholar and historian. [24] Shrine of the Venerable Bede, in Durham Cathedral; Bonner selected the quotation which is displayed on the wall above the saint's tomb.