Almost everything that is known of Bede's life is contained in the last chapter of his Historia Ecclesiastica, a history of the church in England.

Bede's best-known work is the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, or An Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

Some of Bede's material came from oral traditions, including a description of the physical appearance of Paulinus of York, who had died nearly 90 years before Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica was written.

Bede's work as a hagiographer, and his detailed attention to dating, were both useful preparations for the task of writing the Historia Ecclesiastica.

Bede's Latin has been praised for its clarity, but his style in the Historia Ecclesiastica is not simple.

In the words of Charles Plummer, one of the best-known editors of the Historia Ecclesiastica, Bede's Latin is " clear and limpid ... it is very seldom that we have to pause to think of the meaning of a sentence ... Alcuin rightly praises Bede for his unpretending style.

Bede's primary intention in writing the Historia Ecclesiastica was to show the growth of the united church throughout England.

The native Britons, whose Christian church survived the departure of the Romans, earn Bede's ire for refusing to help convert the Saxons ; by the end of the Historia the English, and their Church, are dominant over the Britons.

This goal, of showing the movement towards unity, explains Bede's animosity towards the British method of calculating Easter: much of the Historia is devoted to a history of the dispute, including the final resolution at the Synod of Whitby in 664.

Most of the 8th-and 9th-century texts of Bede's Historia come from the northern parts of the Carolingian Empire.

The belief that the Historia was the culmination of Bede's works, the aim of all his scholarship, a belief common among historians in the past, is no longer accepted by most scholars.

She makes no appearance in Bede's work, the Historia Brittonum, the Mabinogion or Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain.

The main sources available for discussion of this period include Gildas's De Excidio Britanniae and Nennius's Historia Brittonum, the Annales Cambriae, Anglo Saxon Chronicle, William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum and De Antiquitate Glastoniensis Ecclesiae, along with texts from the Black Book of Carmarthen and the Red Book of Hergest, and Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum as well as " The Descent of the Men of the North " ( Bonedd Gwŷr y Gogledd, in Peniarth MS 45 and elsewhere ) and the Book of Baglan.

The earliest English record of the kingdom dates to Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, which noted the arrival of Bishop ( later Saint ) Mellitus in London in 604.

Hengist and Horsa are attested in Bede's 8th-century Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ; in the 9th-century Historia Brittonum, attributed to Nennius ; and in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a collection of annals compiled from the end of the 9th century.

Patrick Sims-Williams is more skeptical of the account, suggesting that Bede's Canterbury source, for which he relied on for his account of Hengist and Horsa in his work Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, had confused two separate traditions.

Boniface also gave Justus a letter congratulating him on the conversion of King " Aduluald " ( probably King Eadbald of Kent ), a letter which is included in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.

Gregory's letter marked a sea change in the missionary strategy, and was later included in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.

While very little in the way of Pictish writing has survived, Pictish history since the late 6th century is known from a variety of sources, including Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, saints ' lives such as that of Columba by Adomnán, and various Irish annals.

It is thought that Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ( Chapter XXIII ) includes a reference to the Battle of Poitiers: "... a dreadful plague of Saracens ravaged France with miserable slaughter, but they not long after in that country received the punishment due to their wickedness ".

According to a later continuation of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica ( written anonymously after Bede's death ) the king was " treacherously murdered at night by his own bodyguards ", though the reason why is unrecorded.

He also knew Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ; the Historia Brittonum, a Welsh source ; the Life of Alcuin ; and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

According to Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, a history of the English church, there were seven early Anglo-Saxon rulers who held imperium, or overlordship, over the other kingdoms.

St-Calais also gave a copy of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum to his cathedral chapter ; this copy still survives.

The sources for Áedán's life include Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ; Irish annals, principally the Annals of Ulster and the Annals of Tigernach ; and Adomnán's Life of Saint Columba.

The main sources available for discussion of this period include Gildas's De Excidio Britanniae and Nennius's Historia Brittonum, the Annales Cambriae, Anglo Saxon Chronicle, William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum and De Antiquitate Glastoniensis Ecclesiae, along with texts from the Black Book of Carmarthen and the Red Book of Hergest, and Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum as well as " The Descent of the Men of the North " ( Bonedd Gwŷr y Gogledd, in Peniarth MS 45 and elsewhere ) and the Book of Baglan.

The idea that a distinct Pictish language was perceived at some point is attested clearly in Bede's early 8th-century Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, which names Pictish as a language distinct from both Welsh and Gaelic.

According to Bede's account in his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ( Book I, chapter 34 ), Æthelfrith had won many victories against the Britons and was expanding his power and territory, and this concerned Áedán, who led " an immense and mighty army " against Æthelfrith.

Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum says that Hereric, the father of St Hilda of Whitby, was killed at the court of King Ceretic.

Reformatting native religious and cultural activities and beliefs into a Christianized form was officially sanctioned ; preserved in the Venerable Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum is a letter from Pope Gregory I to Mellitus, arguing that conversions were easier if people were allowed to retain the outward forms of their traditions, while claiming that the traditions were in honour of the Christian God, " to the end that, whilst some gratifications are outwardly permitted them, they may the more easily consent to the inward consolations of the grace of God ".

Mac Fhirbhisigh's own version of the Senchus begins with the earlier myth, tracing Dál Riata to the Síl Conairi and Cairpre Riata ( Rígfhota ), son of Conaire Mór and / or Conaire Cóem, who may be the Reuda of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.

Bede's best-known work is the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, or An Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

The appeal is first referenced in Gildas ' 6th-century De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae ; Gildas ' account was later repeated in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.

18 ), formerly known as the Leningrad Bede, is an Anglo-Saxon illuminated manuscript, a near-contemporary version of Bede's 8th century history, the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ( Ecclesiastical History of the English People ).

British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius C. II, or the Tiberius Bede, is an 8th century illuminated manuscript of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.

An important source of information is Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, which describes events during the reigns of several East Anglian kings, including Raedwald, the first king who is known by more than a name.

A manuscript of Bede's, Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.

* De mensibus Anglorum ChXV – Bede's Anglo-Saxon Calendar ( in Latin )

" ( Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, Book I, Chapter XV, 731 A. D .)

The main source for Charibert's life is Gregory of Tours ' History of the Franks ( Book IV, 3, 16, 22, 26 and IX, 26 ), and from the English perspective Bede's Ecclesiastic History of the English People.

Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica, Book III, chapter 22, is virtually the sole source for his career.