Bede (673-735)
The Venerable Bede, as he is called, spent his life as a monk at Jarrow and is one of the really great scholars of England and of Europe. Bede is famous for his Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum ( Ecclesiastical History of the English People ). His writings also include grammatical and critical bandbooks like De Metrica Arte, scientific treatises like De Ratione Temporum, commentaries on various books of the Bible ( canonical and apocryphal), homilies, saint's lives and verse. Bede wrote Latin with the competence to be expected of a gifted man. He is not only the first among English historians in point of time, he is also first in importance.
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