the venerable bede
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The VenerableBedec.672-735
The Venerable Bede
• Monk at Wearmouth and Jarrow• “The Father of English History”; also wrote on
music, metrics, scripture, grammar, natural phenomena, chronologies
• Made new calculation of the earth’s age, began dividing Christian era into BC and AD
The Venerable Bede
• Wrote Earth was round “like a playground ball” contrasting it with being “round like a shield”
• Became known as “Venerable” just after his death but not considered for sainthood
• Importance to Roman Catholicism recognized in 1899 and declared St. Bede the Venerable
The Ecclesiastical History
The Ecclesiastical History
• 5 books, about 400 pages• Contains ecclesiastical and political history of
England from time of Caesar to its completion in 731
• First 21 chapters compiled from earlier writers with legends and traditions inserted
• Has 596 documented sources, including oral testimony
• Bede is credited with inventing footnoting
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