![]() ![]() Thereafter, the religious course of England was set. But he notes the important turning points in the sixth century, Augustine’s mission to convert the Anglo-Saxons, the continuing influence of Pope Gregory the Great and in the seventh century, the decision at the Council of Whitby (in 664) that ecclesiastical rule would come from Rome rather than the monks in Ireland. He comments on the Christian persecution during Roman rule and recounts in some detail the martyrdom of St Alban.īede explains how the withdrawal of Roman rule in the fifth century ushered in a period of great instability with incursions by the Scots and Picts, then the Germanic peoples, Angles, Saxons and Jutes. Bede starts his history, after a brief geographic description of the island, with the arrival of the Romans - first of all Caesar and then Claudius, through to Severus and Diocletian. ![]() It is a remarkable document, tracing, in general, early Anglo-Saxon history, and in particular, as the title proclaims, the growth and establishment of Christianity against the backdrop of the political life.īede finished it in 731 and immediately sent it to its dedicatee Ceolwulf, the king of Northumbria, who had expressed strong interest in the project. ![]() The Ecclesiastical History of the English People was written in Latin by the Venerable Bede (673-735), a Benedictine monk living in Northumbria, an important Christian centre in the eighth century. ![]()
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