ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Bede was one of the greatest scholars of the Anglo-Saxon period. He produced a large number of works on subjects as varied as science, music, poetry and biblical commentary, but he is most famous for his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, one of our best-written sources for early English history.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Venerable Bede: ‘Father of English History’ Bede was a monk who was known as a scholar and an author. He is known as “the father of English history.” Bede was sent at an early age to a monastery at Jarrow to be educated.

Detailed explanation-3: -Saint Bede, known as the Venerable Bede, (born 672/673, traditionally Monkton in Jarrow, Northumbria [Eng.]-died May 25, 735, Jarrow; feast day May 25), Anglo-Saxon theologian, historian, and chronologist. Raised in a monastery, he was ordained a priest at age 30.

Detailed explanation-4: -W.N. Bryant introduces Bede, the ‘Father of English History’, a Northumbrian Monk who devoted his life to study, teaching and church services. Bede was probably born about the year 673.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Venerable Bede was early medieval Europe’s greatest scholar and the first to record the history of the English nation. His reputation alone made this one of the most important historical and religious sites in Europe.