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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.
Adam Bede was the first novel by English author George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans, first published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously , even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time.
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 .
Chapter 14 of book IV only appears in the m manuscripts. There are three words in the m text near the beginning of book IV, chapter 18, which are omitted in the c text. There is a variation between the texts in the annal for 731 given in the recapitulation at the end of the work; and in addition, the c text adds annals for 733 and 734 which do ...
Bede refers to a book of epigrams; the work is not entirely lost but has survived only in fragments. [51] In the early 16th century, the antiquary John Leland transcribed a selection of epigrams from a now-lost manuscript; his selection includes several epigrams attributed to Bede which are likely to have come from the book Bede refers to.
Bede recounts Edwin's baptism, and that of his chief men, on 12 April 627. [16] Edwin's zeal, so Bede says, led to Rædwald's son Eorpwald also converting. [17] Bede's account of the conversion is oft-cited. After Paulinus explains the tenets of Christianity, the king asks his counsellors what they think of the new doctrine.
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.