Bede Concludes His Ecclesiastical History of the English People
At a glance:
- Series: Chronology of European History
- Categories: Education, Literature, Publishing, Religion, Ethics
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Historians
- Curriculum: British History, Medieval History/Middle Ages
- Geographical Location: England, Britain, United Kingdom
- Date: 731
Article abstract: Bede completes his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, creating a contemporary history of Anglo-Saxon England that popularizes the system of dating events from the birth of Christ rather than by the years of a ruler’s reign.
Summary of Event
Elevated after his death by the Church to the status of “the Venerable” and honored by the secular world as “the Father of English History,” Bede was born into unlikely circumstance for such honors. Northumbria, in the psychological geography of the times, was a remote part of a...
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