Author:Bede

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Bede (673–735)

sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons gallery, quotes. Bede (or Saint Bede, or the Venerable Bede, or Beda) was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Wearmouth and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow, Great Britain.

Bede

Works

• Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
  • Ecclesiastical History of the English People
• Vita sanctorum abbatum monasterii in Wiremutha et Gyruum
  • Lives of the holy abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow
• De locis sanctis
  • The Book of the Holy Places
• Beati Felicis Confessori vita
  • The Life of the Holy Confessor Saint Felix
• De temporibus (incl. the chronica minor)
  • On the Times (incl. the Lesser Chronicle)

Letters

• An epistle from Bede to Abbot Albinus, relating to his Ecclesiastical History

Works about Bede

• “Bede,” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885-1900) in 63 vols.
• “Bede or BÆDA” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “The Venerable Bede,” in Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913.
• “Bede,” The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co., 1914.

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