LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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Question
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Who was the learned monk in the 8th century who wrote about the history of England?
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Bede
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Mead
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Beowulf
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Abstract. Did King Alfred the Great commission the Old English translation of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, probably the masterpiece of medieval Anglo-Latin Literature, as part of his famous program of translation to educate the Anglo-Saxons?
Detailed explanation-3: -St. Bede is best known for his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (“Ecclesiastical History of the English People”), a source vital to the history of the conversion to Christianity of the Anglo-Saxon tribes.
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