The Venerable Bede C673-735
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The Venerable Bede C673-735
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The Venerable Bede (c673-735), Anglo-Saxon theologian, scholar and historian, 1493. Seen here holding a book, Bede was a monk at Jarrow, Northumberland. As a scholar and historian his most important work was the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People), a political and ecclesiastical history of England from the time of Caesar to the date when Bede completed it (731). From Liber chronicarum mundi (Nuremberg Chronicle) by Hartmann Schedel. (Nuremberg, 1493). (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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January 29th, 2021
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