ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People was completed in 731. The work tells the story of the conversion of the English people to Christianity. Bede’s account is the chief source of information about English history from the arrival of St Augustine in Kent in 597 until 731.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Latin: Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum), written by Bede in about AD 731, is a history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England generally; its main focus is on the conflict between the pre-Schism Roman Rite and Celtic Christianity.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, by the English historian Bede, and the Seven Books of Histories Against the Pagans, by Paulus Orosius, a 5th-century theologian-neither of which was translated by Alfred himself, though they have been credited to him-revealed the divine purpose in history.…

Detailed explanation-4: -Written in AD 731, Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People is the first account of Anglo-Saxon England ever written, and remains our single most valuable source for this period.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Venerable Saint Bede was an important Anglo-Saxon theologian and historian. He is generally best remembered for his Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, a work considered to be one of the best sources for early English history.