![]() “It is reported that there was then such perfect peace in Britain, wheresoever the dominion of King Edwin extended, that, as is still proverbially said, a woman with her newborn babe might walk throughout the island, from sea to sea, without receiving any harm.” He is famous as a scholar and author of numerous works, of which the best known is the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ( Ecclesiastical History of the English People), which gained him the title “The Father of English History”. ![]() On May 26, 735 CE, Anglo-Saxon Benedictine, theologian and historian Bede, also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable, passed away. ![]() The Venerable Bede (672/73 – 735) writing the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, from a 12th century codex at Engelberg Abbey in Switzerland. ![]()
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