Life
673-735; ed. Wearmouth and Jarrow; deacon, 692; ord. 703; resided at Jarrow from during abbacy of Ceolfrid; d. Jarrow; called Venerable from 9th c.; reinterred at Durham in the 11th c.; his Historica Ecclesiastica, composed up to 731, contains references to Irish monastic figures including notably Adamnan; the earliest of his 40 works is De Natura Rerum, an account of physical nature after the manner of Isidore of Seville (Origines);
edns. of his works in 1545 and 1554 (Paris), 1563 (Basle), 1612 (Cologne), 1843-44 (London), and 1954 (Harvard); an account of his death was written by his pupil Cuthbert. ODNB
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Works
Anthologised in J. P. Migne’s Patrologiae Cursus Completus (1844); also, Opera Historica, 2 vols. [Loeb Classical Library] (Harvard UP 1954).
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Criticism
A.
H. Thompson, Bede: His Life, Times and Writings (1935).
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