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Bede

Also known as Saint Bede, Venerable Bede, Beda, Saint Bede the Venerable, Bede the Venerable, Beda Anglicus, Bede le Venerable, Doctor of the English

Bede (; ; 672/326 May 735), 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.

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Bede was an English monk and scholar from the Early Middle Ages (672-735) who became one of the most influential writers of his time, earning the title "Father of English History" for his famous work *Ecclesiastical History of the English People*. He spent his life at monasteries in the Kingdom of Northumbria, where he produced scholarly writings that made him one of the best-known authors of his era.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 673
Died: 735
Works: 326

Top works

Liber scintillarum
Sermones sancti Augustini ad heremitas
Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation from the Coming of Julius Cæsar into This Island in the Sixtieth Year Before the Incarnation of Christ till the Year of Our Lord 731
Complete Works of Venerable Bede

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Portland
Active from: 672
Active to: 735

Discogs

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Listeners: 1,199
Total plays: 16,735

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Quotes

“Dicunt quia die quadam cum, advenientibus nuper mercatoribus, multa venalia in forum fuissent conlata, multi ad emendum confluxissent, et ipsum Gregorium inter alios advenisse, ac vidisse inter alia pueros venales positos candidi corporis ac venusti vultus, capillorum quoque forma egregia. Quos cum adspiceret interrogavit, ut aiunt, de qua regione vel terra essent adlati. Dictumque est quia de Britannia insula, cuius incolae talis essent aspectus.”
“Tanta eo tempore pax in Britannia fuisse perhibetur, ut, sicut usque hodie in proverbio dicitur, etiamsi mulier una cum recens nato parvulo vellet totam perambulare insulam a mari ad mare, nullo se laedente valeret.”
“Fore there neidfaerae • naenig uuiurthitthoncsnotturra • than him tharf sieto ymbhycggannae • aer his hiniongaehuaet his gastae • godaes aeththa yflaesaefter deothdaege • doemid uueorthae.”
“For þam nedfere • næni wyrþeþþances snotera, • þonne him þearf syto gehicgenne • ær his heonengangehwæt his gaste • godes oþþe yfelesæfter deaþe heonon • demed weorþe.”
“Before the dread journey which needs must be takenNo man is more mindful than meet is and rightTo ponder, ere hence he departs, what his spiritShall, after the death-day, receive as its portionOf good or of evil, by mandate of doom.”
“Nū scylun herᵹan • hefaenrīcaes Uard,metudæs maecti • end his mōdᵹidanc,uerc Uuldurfadur, • suē hē uundra ᵹihwaes,ēci dryctin • ōr āstelidæhē ǣrist scōp • aelda barnumheben til hrōfe, • hāleᵹ scepen.Thā middunᵹeard • moncynnæs Uard,eci Dryctin, • æfter tīadæfirum foldu, • Frēa allmectiᵹ.”

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Key facts

Saint.honorific_prefix: Saint
Saint.name: Bede the Venerable
Saint.death_date: 26 May 735 (aged 61 or 62)
Saint.venerated_in: Catholic ChurchEastern Orthodox ChurchAnglican CommunionLutheranism
Saint.image: E-codices bke-0047 001v medium (cropped).jpg
Saint.caption: The Venerable Bede writing. Detail from a 12th-century codex.
Saint.birth_place: Kingdom of Northumbria, possibly Monkwearmouth in present-day Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England
Saint.death_place: Jarrow, Northumbria
Saint.honorific suffix: OSB
Saint.titles: Doctor of the Church
Saint.canonized_date: Declared a Doctor of the Church in 1899 by Pope Leo XIII
Saint.canonized_place: Rome
Saint.attributes: Holding the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, a quill, a biretta
Saint.patronage: English writers and historians; Jarrow, Tyne and Wear, England, Beda College, San Beda University, San Beda College Alabang
Saint.major_shrine: Durham Cathedral, England

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Wikidata facts

Image: Man writing Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS. 389.jpg

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Commons category: Bede
date of death: 0735-05-25
date of birth: 0672-00-00
Commons Creator page: Bede
Commons gallery: Bede
name in native language: Beda Venerabilis
P8168: Xysticus paiutus
P12749: Pockau
P13311: roundabout

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Bede, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Explanatio Apocalypsis (fragment)

Martyrologium Bedae

Expositio actuum apostolorum (fragment)

Opera quaedam theologica... necnon historica,... Accesserunt Egberti archiepiscopi Eboracensis dialogus de ecclesiastica institutione et Aldhelmi episcopi Scireburnensis liber de virginitate (etc.)

Opera omnia

De temporum ratione (fragment)

De natura rerum et temporum libri duo

Secvndvs Operum Venerabilis Bedae Presbyteri Tomvs, in quo subsequentes continentur eiusdem Commentarii :

Tomvs Tertivs Continens Collectanea venerabilis Bed[a]e Presbyteri in Epistolas diui Pauli apostoli, ex operibus sanctissimi & doctissimi ecclesi[a]e catholic[a]e episcopi & doctoris, Augustini :

Iheronymus super Iheremiam. Explanatio Bede super Thobiam et Regum. Solutiones eiusdem de uerbis apostoli. Item sermo ipsius de Epiphania. Et sermones duo Augustini de resurrexione Domini. Item passio beate Katherine uirginis et martyris [titel fenestra]

Beda super Actus apostolorum et super Canonicas epistolas; Libellus eiusdem de locis sanctis transmarinis; Beda super Apokalipsim; liber Baruch

[Convoluut met theologische bloemlezingen, brieven, bijbelcommentaren e.a.]

[Opera varia]

Beati Isidori Hispalensis episcopi Etymologiarum libri 20 [titel 18de eeuw]

VENERABILIS BEDAE presbyteri theologi doctissimi iuxta AC SANTISSIMI, COMMENTATIONVM IN SAcras literas.

Textus varii

Sermones varii

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Expositio librorum Ethicorum

Homiliae sanctorum patrum

Homiliae

Homiliae sanctorum patrum de tempore

Ysidorus super Penthateuchon Iosue Iudicum Regum et Esdre. Et Beda super Thobiam et Regum. Solutiones eiusdem de uerbis apostoli. Item recapitulatio desolationis Iherosolime secundum Egesyppum [titel fenestra]

Beda in Proverbia Salomonis

HOMILIAE /

IACOBI LA[TO]MI SACRAE THEOLOGIAE APVD LOVANIENSES PROFESSORIS CELEBERRIMI OPERA, QVAE PRAECIPVE ADVERsus horum temporum haereses erudissime, ac singulari iudicio conscripsit, ab innumeris vitiis, quibus scatebant; diligenter repurgata. Quibus accesserunt eiusdem authoris alia quaedam opuscula, nunquam antehac typis excusa. Cum Indice copiosissimo

VENERABILIS BEDAE Presbyteri Theologi doctissimi operum Tomus tertius:

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HOMILIAE VENERABILIS BEDAE PREsbyteri Anglosaxonis, theologi celeberrimi, in D. Pauli epistolas & alia ueteris & noui testamenti lectiones tam de tempore quàm de sanctis, ut per totum annum in templis leguntur, nunc primum excusae. CVM INDICE

HOMILIAE VENERABILIS BEDAE PRESBYTERI ANglosaxonis, theologi celeberrimi, aestiuales, de tempore item & sanctis, nu [n] c denuo summa diligentiae restitutae. Adiectis aliquot Homiliis eiusdem hactenus desideratis

Bedae de tabernaculo et vasis eius ac vestibus sacerdotum libri III - BSB Clm 14390

In Parabolas Salomonis - BSB Clm 14417. In Ecclesiasten / Hieronymus. Homiliae in Canticum canticorum

In epistulas catholicas - BSB Clm 14385

In libros Regum - BSB Clm 6307. Homiliae in Canticum canticorum/Origen. In Tobiam/Beda

In Epistulas canonicas - BSB Clm 6284

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Article

33 sections

Contents

Life
Childhood
Boyhood
Youth
Adulthood
Final years
Works
''Ecclesiastical History of the English People''
Sources
Models and style
Intent
Omissions and biases
Use of ''Anno Domini''
Assessment
Other historical works
Chronicles
Hagiography
Theological works
Sources
Historical and astronomical chronology
Educational works
Latin poetry
Vernacular poetry
Veneration
Modern legacy
See also
Notes
References
Sources
Primary sources
Secondary sources
Further reading
External links

Born on lands belonging to the twin monastery of Monkwearmouth–Jarrow in present-day Tyne and Wear, England, Bede was sent to Monkwearmouth at the age of seven and later joined Abbot Ceolfrith at Jarrow. Both of them survived a plague that struck in 686 and killed the majority of the population there. While Bede spent most of his life in the monastery, he travelled to several abbeys and monasteries across the British Isles, even visiting the archbishop of York and King Ceolwulf of Northumbria.