![]() ![]() The final chapters look at attempts at conversion in other parts of Britain after this.īede had been educated at the monastery from the age of 7 and wrote in Latin. This culminated in the Synod of Whitby in 664 in which the King of Northumbria ruled that Christianity in his kingdom would follow Roman practices and dates rather than those of the Celtic tradition-as followed by St Cedd and St Cuthbert. The book, in five chapters, gives a history of Christianity in Britain, starting with the Romans and continuing to the tensions between Celtic and Roman Christianity in the 7th century. What is known of his life comes mainly from the final chapter in this work, completed in about 731. Name/Title Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People), The British Library, Cotton Tiberius C IIĪbout this object This history of early Christianity in Britain was written by Bede (672/3–735), a monk at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery, St Paul, in Monkwearmouth and Jarrow, Northumberland. ![]()
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