Bede 'the Venerable, ' English theologian and historian, was born
in 672 or 673 CE in the territory of the single monastery at
Wearmouth and Jarrow. He was ordained deacon (691-2) and priest
(702-3) of the monastery, where his whole life was spent in
devotion, choral singing, study, teaching, discussion, and writing.
Besides Latin he knew Greek and possibly Hebrew.
Bede's theological works were chiefly commentaries, mostly
allegorical in method, based with acknowledgment on Jerome,
Augustine, Ambrose, Gregory, and others, but bearing his own
personality. In another class were works on grammar and one on
natural phenomena; special interest in the vexed question of Easter
led him to write about the calendar and chronology. But his most
admired production is his "Ecclesiastical History of the English
Nation," Here a clear and simple style united with descriptive
powers to produce an elegant work, and the facts diligently
collected from good sources make it a valuable account. Historical
also are his "Lives of the Abbots" of his monastery, the less
successful accounts (in verse and prose) of Cuthbert, and the
"Letter" (November 734) "to Egbert" his pupil, so important for our
knowledge about the Church in Northumbria.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Bede's historical works
is in two volumes.
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