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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Bede
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(also known as the Venerable Bede, c.673–735) Monk in the monastery of Jarrow, in Northumbria, whose lasting fame derives from his Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (History of the English Church and People). It briefly describes the Roman occupation of England, but concentrates on the centuries after their departure. These include the arrival of the *Anglo-Saxons and of two different waves of Christian missionaries, the Celtic and the Roman; the rival claims in ritual and dogma between these two groups had been resolved, shortly before his own birth, at the *Synod of Whitby.
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Many semi-legendary names from the early mists of English history, such as *Hengist and Horsa or *Caedmon, are known only from Bede, and he was used as a major source for later works such as the *Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Probably known as 'venerable' even in his own lifetime, he was canonized as a doctor of the church by Pope Leo XIII in 1899. His bones were moved in the 11C to *Durham, where there is a shrine to him in the Galilee Chapel.
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