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The Venerable Bede c.672- 735

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The Venerable Bede. c.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. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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The VenerableBedec.672-735

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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

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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

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The Ecclesiastical History

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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