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Bede The Venerable - College Essays

Bede The Venerable

was a very important figure in history. He made
many significant contributions to the English language.
Bede was born in Northumbria England in 673. When he was a young
boy at age 7 his relatives sent him to the new monastery at Wearmouth-
Jarrow. Bede was a very bright student. The canon law had forbid men under
the age of 25 being ordained as beacons, but Bede showed outstanding
learning and holiness and was ordained at age 19 (Thompson, 11). Later in
1703 he was ordained a priest. He dedicated his life to teaching and
writing and had no less than 600 monks as students. Bede rarely left the
monastery and in his own words he states, "I have devoted my energies to
the study of the ...

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1). Much of Bede's work was done in Latin, but he is the first
known writer of English prose. All of his work in the English vernacular
has since been lost, but he is still considered the "Father of English
Writing" and also "The Father of English History."
Bede's ultimate piece of work was his Ecclesiastical History of the
English People. This book described in detail the first authoritative
history of Christian origins in Britain. He also included details of how
five monks lived their lives in the monastery or Wearmouth and Jarrow. At
the end he included his bibliography of all his writings. This work
provides evidence that he was English and he thought of himself as English
and not just a part of the kingdom or Northumbria. Bede was also a major
provider of Roman Christian literature to the illiterate Anglo Saxon people,
and that transformed and melded the Italic and Germanic cultures together
forever.(Brown, 2). Bede showed that it was allowable to use English and
it ...

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