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Around the same time Bede's own remains were stolen from Monkwearmouth-Jarrow for Durham, by a " notably underhand trick ", and placed in Cuthbert's coffin, where they remained until 1104.

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Bede would probably have met the abbot during this visit, and it may be that Adomnan sparked Bede's interest in the Easter dating controversy.
The canonical age for the ordination of a deacon was 25 ; Bede's early ordination may mean that his abilities were considered exceptional, but it is also possible that the minimum age requirement was often disregarded.
This may be because Wilfrid's opulent lifestyle was uncongenial to Bede's monastic mind ; it may also be that the events of Wilfrid's life, divisive and controversial as they were, simply did not fit with Bede's theme of the progression to a unified and harmonious church.
It is likely that Bede's work, because it was so widely copied, discouraged others from writing histories and may even have led to the disappearance of manuscripts containing older historical works.
Bede's tale may come from the same root as the Irish tales of Cairpre Riata and his brothers, the Síl Conairi or sons / descendants of Conaire Mór / Conaire Cóem.
This " Roman " feature makes Bede's claim that Edwin was preceded by a standard-bearer carrying a " tufa " ( OE thuuf, this may have been a winged globe ) appear to be more than antiquarian curiosity, although whether the model for this practice was Roman or Frankish is unknown.
Coal was first known to be dug in Tyneside from superficial seams in around 1200, but there is some evidence from Bede's writings that it may have been dug as early as 800 AD.
Historians have generally accepted Bede's report of Coenred's and Offa's abdications, but Barbara Yorke has suggested that they may not have relinquished their thrones voluntarily.
This may explain a number of gaps in Bede's account of Chad, and why Bede sometimes seems to attribute to Chad implausible motives.
Historians have generally accepted Bede's report of Coenred's abdication, but Barbara Yorke has suggested that he may not have relinquished his throne voluntarily.
It may also be that the underkings were another dynastic faction of the West Saxon royal line, vying for power with Centwine and Cædwalla ; the description of them as " underkings " may be due to a partisan description of the situation by Bishop Daniel of Winchester, who was Bede's primary informant on West Saxon events.
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.
A possible explanation for Bede's discretion may be found in his comment that one should not make public accusations against church figures, no matter what their sins ; Bede may have found little good to say about the church in his day and hence preferred to keep silent.
Bede's dismissal of Æscwine and Centwine as merely sub-kings may represent the views of the supporters of the King Ine, whose family ruled Wessex in Bede's time.
Bede's dismissal of Æscwine as a mere sub-king may represent the views of the supporters of the King Ine, whose family ruled Wessex in Bede's time, as Ine's family were bona fide descendants of Cynric through Ceawlin's son Cuthwine.
This manuscript may have been the Latin text on which the Alfredian Old English translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History was based.

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Nothhelm, a correspondent of Bede's who assisted him by finding documents for him in Rome, is known to have visited Bede, though the date cannot be determined beyond the fact that it was after Nothhelm's visit to Rome.
Modern historians have completed many studies of Bede's works.
Most of Bede's informants for information after Augustine's mission came from the eastern part of Britain, leaving significant gaps in the knowledge of the western areas, which were those areas likely to have a native Briton presence.
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.
Some historians have questioned the reliability of some of Bede's accounts.
Bede dedicated this work to Cuthbert, apparently a student, for he is named " beloved son " in the dedication, and Bede says " I have laboured to educate you in divine letters and ecclesiastical statutes " Another textbook of Bede's is the De orthographia, a work on orthography, designed to help a medieval reader of Latin with unfamiliar abbreviations and words from classical Latin works.
In 1995, Simon Keynes observed that " if Bede's concept of the Southumbrian overlord, and the chronicler's concept of the ' Bretwalda ', are to be regarded as artificial constructs, which have no validity outside the context of the literary works in which they appear, we are released from the assumptions about political development which they seem to involve ... we might ask whether kings in the eighth and ninth centuries were quite so obsessed with the establishment of a pan-Southumbrian state ".
The Picts are often said to have practised matrilineal succession on the basis of Irish legends and a statement in Bede's history.
This could conflict with Bede's saintly portrayal of Oswald, since an aggressive war could hardly qualify as a just war, perhaps explaining why Bede is silent on the cause of the war — he says only that Oswald died " fighting for his fatherland "— as well as his failure to mention other offensive warfare Oswald is presumed to have engaged in between Heavenfield and Maserfield.
According to Bede's life of the saint, when Cuthbert's sarcophagus was opened eleven years after his death, his body was found to have been perfectly preserved or incorrupt.
However, Bede ’ s accuracy as a historian has been well regarded by Anglo-Saxon scholars, and historians have generally been comfortable following Bede's basic presentation of the synod.
In Saxon settlements such as one identified in Northumberland as Bede's Ad Gefrin ( now called Yeavering ) the buildings were shown by an excavator's reconstruction to have opposed entries.
Many historians, including the editor of Bede's works, Charles Plummer, have seen in Bede's writings a dislike of Wilfrid.
R. L. Poole ( Studies in Chronology and History, 1934 ) put forward the theory that Bede began his year in September, and consequently November 655 would actually fall in 654 ; Frank Stenton also dated events accordingly in his Anglo-Saxon England ( 1943 ).< sup > 1 </ sup > Others have accepted Bede's given dates as meaning what they appear to mean, considering Bede's year to have begun on 25 December or 1 January ( see S. Wood, 1983: " Bede's Northumbrian dates again "
Scholars have linked the goddess ' name to a variety of Germanic personal names, a series of location names in England, over 150 2nd century BCE Matronae ( the matronae Austriahenea ) inscriptions discovered in Germany, and have debated whether or not Eostre is an invention of Bede's, and theories connecting Ēostre with records of Germanic Easter customs ( including hares and eggs ) have been proposed.

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Bede's Latin has been praised for its clarity, but his style in the Historia Ecclesiastica is not simple.
Although Bede's narrative is widely accepted, an alternative chronology has been proposed by D. P.
This is quite inconsistent with the earlier date Bede gives for Eadbald ’ s acceptance of Christianity, and it has been suggested in Bede's defence that Æthelburg married Edwin substantially earlier and stayed in Kent until 625 before travelling to Rome, and that the letter was written while she was in Kent.
Oswine was also of the royal family, and arguably had a claim to the throne ; hence it has been suggested that Bede's comments here are strongly partisan.
There were clearly gaps in Bede's knowledge, but Bede also says little on some topics that he must have been familiar with.
Bede's work De VIII Quastionibus may have been written for Nothhelm.
Wilfrid has occasionally been regarded as a previous bishop of the South Saxons, but this is an insertion of his name into the episcopal lists by later medieval writers, and Wilfrid was not considered the bishop during his lifetime or Bede's.

Bede's and Durham
Bede's tomb in Durham Cathedral
In 1083 he expelled the married clergy from the cathedral, and moved a small community of monks from Bede's old monastery at Jarrow to Durham, to form the new chapter.
Paul Goggins was born in Manchester and was educated locally at St Bede's College, before going on to study at the Roman Catholic seminary Ushaw College in Durham ( 1971 – 1973 ).
Bede's Tomb, Durham Cathedral, watercolour by Augustus Hare
Óengus and the Picts appear occasionally in Welsh sources, such as the Annales Cambriae, and more frequently in Northumbrian sources, of which the Continuation of Bede's chronicle and the Historia Regum Anglorum attributed to Symeon of Durham are the most important.

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