English Literature / Unit 3 ENL 0206 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Bede's Ecclesiastical History
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The idea
Bede, an English monk later called the Venerable Bede, wrote the Ecclesiastical History of the English People in Latin, completing it in seven thirty-one. It runs from the Roman invasion and centres on conversion, crediting Irish and Italian missionaries and faulting the native Britons.
In practice
Latin history, finished seven thirty-one.
Where people slip
Bede writes conversion as his theme.
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