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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.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. C. 162. From the late 14th or early 15th century. The manuscript was once owned by John Newton, who was treasurer of York; he left it to York Minster in his will, in 1414. A Bertram Stote, of Newcastle upon Tyne, owned it in the early 18th century. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, McClean 109. 15th century.
The Moore Bede (Cambridge, University Library, Kk. 5. 16) is an early manuscript of Bede's 8th-century Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People). It was formerly owned by Bishop John Moore (1646–1714), whose collection of books and manuscripts was purchased by George I and donated to Cambridge ...
Bede completes his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People). [1] 13 January – death of Berhtwald, Archbishop of Canterbury. He is succeeded by Tatwine. 732. Wilfrid II resigns the Bishopric of York and is succeeded by Ecgbert who establishes a library and school in York. 734
Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-283866-0. Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Old English version) Description: An Old English version of Bede's Ecclesiastical History. Latin titles: Described in Bede's list as Historiam ecclesiasticam nostrae insulae ac gentis in libris V. [31] Editions: History of the Abbots of Wearmouth ...
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.