Bede
Anglo-Saxon monk, writer and saint (672/3–735)
b. c. 672 · d. 25 May 735
Bede, 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.
Related people
- Ceolfrith disciple of · traditional
- Benedict Biscop disciple of · traditional
- Cuthbert of Wearmouth teacher of · traditional
- Ecgbert teacher of · traditional
- Cuthbert teacher of · traditional
- Ecgbert influenced · traditional
Works
- The Reckoning of Time 725
- De natura rerum c. 703
- De arte metrica c. 710
- Letter to Egbert 734
- On times 8th century
- Explanatio Apocalypsis
- Commentarium super Lucam
- Hexaemeron
- De die iudicii
- Vita sancti Cuthberti
- Martyrologium
- De temporibus
- Hymnum canamus gloriae
- Praecursor altus luminis
- Iheronimus, super Iheremiam, Explanatio Bede super Thobiam et Regum, Solutiones eiusdem de verbis Apostoli, Item sermo ipsius in Epiphania, Sermones duo Augustini de resurrectione Domini, Item passio beate Katherine virginis et martyris,
- Sermons
- Historia abbatum
- Grammatica
- Old English Ecclesiastical History
- Latin commentaries on Revelation
- Vita sancti Albani
- De locis sanctis
Commemorated
Places
- Jarrow death
- Durham Cathedral burial
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
Documents
Glosses
- Why there is no year zero Reckoning the Easter tables in 525, Dionysius Exiguus refused to go on numbering the years by Diocletian the persecutor and counted from the incarnation instead — and he began at 1, because Roman arithmetic had no zero…