Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Bede Beda Venerabilis · c. 673 – 735
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A Northumbrian monk tells in five books how Christianity came to the English, from Caesar's landing to his own day. Bede names his informants, quotes letters and sorts reports by reliability, and he also records miracles as fact. His use of years from the birth of Christ did much to spread that way of counting in Western Europe. It is the foundation of early English history.