Bede
Sign in to saveBede (; ; 672/326 May 735), also known as the Venerable Bede or Bede the Venerable, was an English monk, author and scholar. He was one of the best known writers during the Early Middle Ages, and his most famous work, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, gained him the title "The Father of English History". He served at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery of St Paul in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles.
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Bede was an English monk and scholar from the Early Middle Ages (672-735) who became one of the most influential writers of his time, earning the title "Father of English History" for his famous work *Ecclesiastical History of the English People*. He spent his life at monasteries in the Kingdom of Northumbria, where he produced scholarly writings that made him one of the best-known authors of his era.
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- Born
- 673
- Died
- 735
- Works
- 326
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- Sermones sancti Augustini ad heremitas
- Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
- Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation from the Coming of Julius Cæsar into This Island in the Sixtieth Year Before the Incarnation of Christ till the Year of Our Lord 731
- Complete Works of Venerable Bede
- Life and Miracles of St. Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindesfarne
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33 sectionsContents
- Life
- Childhood
- Boyhood
- Youth
- Adulthood
- Final years
- Works
- ''Ecclesiastical History of the English People''
- Sources
- Models and style
- Intent
- Omissions and biases
- Use of ''Anno Domini''
- Assessment
- Other historical works
- Chronicles
- Hagiography
- Theological works
- Sources
- Historical and astronomical chronology
- Educational works
- Latin poetry
- Vernacular poetry
- Veneration
- Modern legacy
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Bede (; ; 672/326 May 735), also known as the Venerable Bede or Bede the Venerable, was an English monk, author and scholar. He was one of the best known writers during the Early Middle Ages, and his most famous work, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, gained him the title "The Father of English History". He served at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery of St Paul in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles.
Born on lands belonging to the twin monastery of Monkwearmouth–Jarrow in present-day Tyne and Wear, England, Bede was sent to Monkwearmouth at the age of seven and later joined Abbot Ceolfrith at Jarrow. Both of them survived a plague that struck in 686 and killed the majority of the population there. While Bede spent most of his life in the monastery, he travelled to several abbeys and monasteries across the British Isles, even visiting the archbishop of York and King Ceolwulf of Northumbria.