Still, it is his English history that is best known and most treasured today. His interest in the topic began with curiosity about the correct date to celebrate Easter, and Bede is the first historian to use the A. His history ranges from 55 B. His thoroughness and accuracy are the book's strengths, and considering the limitations of the day, Bede's achievement is remarkable: he quoted some separate works and no doubt consulted even more.
He asked traveling monks to consult Vatican archives for him, and evidence came to him from many witnesses scattered over Europe. And he exhorted his copyists to preserve his citations—"since I do not want to be thought a thief in putting down as mine what is really theirs.
Though remembered as a historian, Bede's chief delight was in the study of Scripture. Four-fifths of his writings were on biblical interpretation. These include commentaries on the Pentateuch, the Gospels, Acts, and Revelation. On his deathbed he translated the Gospel of John from the Latin into English, which one English biblical scholar called the "opening scene of the … history of the English Bible. He died on the floor of his cell where he regularly prayed, and just before he died, he was heard chanting the Gloria.
His scholarship covered a huge range of subjects, including commentaries on the bible, observations of nature, music and poetry. His most famous work, which is a key source for the understanding of early British history and the arrival of Christianity, is 'Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum' or 'The Ecclesiastical History of the English People' which was completed in AD.
It is the first work of history in which the AD system of dating is used. Search term:. Read more. This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets CSS enabled. Module 2: Old English Poetry. Search for:. Licenses and Attributions. CC licensed content, Shared previously.
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