The Venerable Bede in European Context

November 19, 2013

The Venerable Bede (c. 673-735), monk, theologian and the first historian of the English people, lived at the monastery of St Peter and St Paul in Monkwearmouth and Jarrow in Northumbria on Britain’s north-east coast.  While an earlier generation of historians tended to see Bede as living at the ragged edge of Christian civilisation, working …