Bede Writes the Ecclesiastical History of the English People

Name: Bede Writes the Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Start: 731

Type Event Region England Time 731

In 731 the English Benedictine monk Bede completed the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, a foundational Latin chronicle of English church…

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725–731Monastery of Jarrow · EnglandIn his monastery Bede systematically gathered church documents, oral traditions, and royal archives, writing a five-volume church history in annalistic form covering missions, changes of royal power, and the evolution of church institutions.
731Monastery of Jarrow · EnglandBede stated at the end of his work that it was completed in 731; transcribed copies thereafter circulated widely in England and on the continent, becoming a basic source for later study of the Anglo-Saxon period.

Sources

Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum — Bede (731)
Ecclesiastical History of the English People — Bede; translated by Bertram Colgrave and R. A. B. Mynors (1969)