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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 ...
Latin titles: One of the two books referred to in Bede's list as In actus apostolorum libros II [3] Editions: ed. Laistner; Retractation. Description: Probably completed between 725 and 731. [3] Latin titles: One of the two books referred to in Bede's list as In actus apostolorum libros II [3] Editions: ed. Laistner; Commentary on the Apocalypse
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.
The Codex Amiatinus, described by White as the 'finest book in the world', [9] [10] was created at the monastery and was likely worked on by Bede, who was born at Wearmouth in 673. [11] This is one of the oldest monasteries still standing in England.
However, Bede, writing centuries later, reasoned that these soldiers arrived only in 449, and he named the "proud tyrant" as Vortigern. Bede's understanding of these events has been questioned. For example, he reports St Germanus coming to Britain after this conflict began, although he would have been dead by then. [10]
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 .
Edwin 2 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England; Bede's Ecclesiastical History and its Continuation (pdf), at CCEL, translated by A. M. Sellar, Latin edition at the Latin Library. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle an XML edition by Tony Jebson, including Ms. E. Archive Copy of Annales Cambriae (translated) at the Internet Medieval Sourcebook.
Yeavering is situated at the western end of a valley known as Glendale, where the Cheviot foothills give way to the Tweed Valley, an area of fertile plain. [2] Yeavering's most prominent feature is the twin-peaked hill, Yeavering Bell (1,158 feet/353 metres above sea level), which was used as a hillfort in the Iron Age.