Bede. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Bede

PRONUNCIATION:	bd
DATES:	673?–735
VARIANT FORMS:	also Bae·da or Be·da ( bd)
VARIANTS:	Known as “the Venerable Bede.”
	Anglo-Saxon theologian and historian whose major work, Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation (731), written in Latin, remains an important source of ancient English history. He introduced the method of dating events from the birth of Christ.


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