Ecclesiastical History of the English People

Name: Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Author: Bede

Bede · 731 · public-domain-translation

26 claims in this dataset rest on this source.

The source

People it attests

Æthelbert 1 claim
Augustine of Canterbury 1 claim
Brigid of Kildare 1 claim
Cedd 1 claim
Colmán of Lindisfarne 1 claim
Gregory I 1 claim
Hilda 1 claim
Ninian 1 claim
Oswiu 1 claim
Saint Alban 1 claim
Theodore of Tarsus 1 claim
Wilfrid 1 claim

Documents read in it

The Libellus responsionum [object Object]
Letter to Mellitus [object Object]
Decision of king Oswiu [object Object]
Canons of Hertford [object Object]
Ecclesiastical History of the English People [object Object]

Events it narrates

The martyrdom of Alban 300
Ninian preaches to the southern Picts 400
Brigid founds Kildare 480
The Gregorian mission lands in Kent 597
Synod of Whitby 664
Council of Hertford 673

Works it describes

The founding narrative of the Canterbury line — Augustine's mission of 597 and the English church to 731. IN BRONZE since 12 Aug 2026 under data/bronze/archive-texts: the Jane translation revised by A. M. Sellar (Dent, Everyman's Library, c. 1910), public domain by imprint date, confirmed at archive.org that day. The link moved there from ccel.org/ccel/bede/history for that reason — fetch:texts only takes the NPNF volumes from CCEL, so Bede was cited for years without being held.