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Sentence Examples Born in Warwickshire, she was the daughter of a land agent whose moral qualities are reflected in those of the upright Adam Bede. Aelfred, Bede, and Beowulf are thoroughly covered, sprinkled yeastily throughout the text. Bede was offered as an oblate to the monastery of Wearmouth when he was only seven years old and spent his whole life as a monk. These Anglian boys, Bede says through the term candidus, shine like holy angels. The treasures of Durham Cathedral include relics of St Cuthbert, the head of St Oswald of Northumbria and the remains of the Venerable Bede. In 708, some monks at Hexham accused Bede of having committed heresy in his work De Temporibus. Bede accepted this identification as fact, and dates St Alban's martyrdom to this later period. At the time Bede wrote the Historia Ecclesiastica, there were two common ways of referring to dates. Bede also covers Wilfrid's life in his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, but this account is more measured and restrained than the Vita. In the Historia, Bede used Stephen's Vita as a source, reworking the information and adding new material when possible. Modern historians and editors of Bede have been lavish in their praise of his achievement in the Historia Ecclesiastica. The Historia Ecclesiastica has given Bede a high reputation, but his concerns were different from those of a modern writer of history. Bede describes Wilfrid as saying that those who did not calculate the date of Easter according to the Roman system were committing a sin. In his own time, Bede was as well known for his biblical commentaries and exegetical, as well as other theological works. Bede has clearly and not unreasonably, associated Gildas' turf wall with the Antonine Wall. Bede described hot baths in the geographical introduction to the Ecclesiastical History in terms very similar to those of Nennius. Bede was the first to refer to Jerome, Augustine, Pope Gregory and Ambrose as the four Latin Fathers of the Church. Ecgbert had been a disciple of the Venerable Bede, who urged him to raise York to an archbishopric. Bede is that he lacked the knowledge of how to compose the lyrics to songs. Although he is often listed as a saint, this is not confirmed by Bede and it has recently been argued that such assertions are incorrect. Show More Sentences Bede also wrote homilies, works written to explain theology used in worship services. After the success of Adam Bede, Eliot continued to write popular novels for the next fifteen years. Gowns are not worn for formals at Collingwood, St Aidan's, St Cuthbert's, Hild Bede, Van Mildert, Stephenson or Ustinov. This led to later scholars like Bede mistaking references to the Antonine Wall for ones to Hadrian's Wall. Bede sometimes included in his theological books an acknowledgement of the predecessors on whose works he drew. Ecgfrith's force decimated the local population and destroyed many churches, actions which are treated with scorn by Bede. The first to attempt this was the monk Bede, writing in the early 8th century. Bede however was critical of the fact that the church was not built of stone but only of hewn oak thatched with reeds. In about 723, Bede wrote a longer work on the same subject, On the Reckoning of Time, which was influential throughout the Middle Ages. Isidore was to have a large influence upon Bede, who was later to mention Thule. Bede states that Columba, a Gael, used an interpreter during his mission to the Picts. In 733, Bede travelled to York to visit Ecgbert, who was then bishop of York. The 8th century English historian Bede tells how their advance resumed thereafter. Despite the identification by Bede as Germanic, some scholars have attempted to link the Rugini with the Rani. There is no evidence for cult being paid to Bede in England in the 8th century. The poem has passed down from a Latin translation by Bede in his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. However, there are no descriptions of Bede by that term right after his death. He found that day boys were looked down on by boarders, and that Bede College was the subject of snobbery within the university. It is believed to have been completed in 731 when Bede was approximately 59 years old. Bede similarly moved Shropshire and Cheshire to Northumbria, which Saxon territory did not exist at the time of the actions in those territories. Show More Sentences For the period prior to Augustine's arrival in 597, Bede drew on earlier writers, including Orosius, Eutropius, Pliny, and Solinus. They learned how to construct the cloud chamber during an interactive session at Stockton Riverside College Bede Sixth Form. For the early part of the work, up until the Gregorian mission, Goffart asserts that Bede used Gildas's De excidio. Bede sets out not just to tell the story of the English, but to advance his views on politics and religion. Bede attributes this defeat to God's vengeance for the Northumbrian attack on the Irish in the previous year. The Liber Vitae of Durham Cathedral names two priests with this name, one of whom is presumably Bede himself. Bede was a partisan of Rome, regarding Gregory the Great, rather than Augustine, as the true apostle of the English. Bede hoped to visit Ecgbert again in 734, but was too ill to make the journey. Bede apparently had no informant at any of the main Mercian religious houses. Mercia was a rising power when Bede wrote the Historia Ecclesiastica, and Bede's regional bias is apparent. There were clearly gaps in Bede's knowledge, but Bede also says little on some topics that he must have been familiar with. Only the existence of other sources such as the Life of Wilfrid make it clear what Bede discreetly avoids saying. On the Tuesday, two days before Bede died, his breathing became worse and his feet swelled. Bede counted anno Domini from Christ's birth, not from Christ's conception. Charles Plummer, in his 1896 edition of Bede, identified six characteristic differences between the two manuscript types. The account of Cuthbert does not make entirely clear whether Bede died before midnight or after. The first wooden minster church was built in York for the baptism of Edwin in 627, according to the Venerable Bede. At the age of seven, Bede was sent to the monastery of Monkwearmouth by his family to be educated by Benedict Biscop and later by Ceolfrith. The Venerable Bede tells of the Scotti coming from Spain via Ireland and the Picts coming from Scythia. Bede adds the detail that Lucius' new faith was thereafter adopted by his people, who maintained it until the Diocletianic Persecution. Show More Sentences Bede was aided in writing this book by Albinus, abbot of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury. Bede wrote a preface for the work, in which he dedicates it to Ceolwulf, king of Northumbria. For the period prior to Augustine's arrival in 597, Bede drew on earlier writers, including Solinus. Bede does not say whether it was already intended at that point that he would be a monk. Monkwearmouth's sister monastery at Jarrow was founded by Ceolfrith in 682, and Bede probably transferred to Jarrow with Ceolfrith that year. 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. For example, Bede knew Acca of Hexham, and dedicated many of his theological works to him. Both accounts basically agree, though Bede gives a much lengthier discourse on the debate. In about 692, in Bede's nineteenth year, Bede was ordained a deacon by his diocesan bishop, John, who was bishop of Hexham. Bede also mentions an Abbot Esi as a source for the affairs of the East Anglian church, and Bishop Cynibert for information about Lindsey. To the west, Bede describes the boundary with the Kingdom of Wessex as being opposite the Isle of Wight, and which later fell on the River Ems. Bede also refers to a mass suicide committed by groups of 40 or 50 men who jumped from cliffs during a time of famine. George Eliot's novel Adam Bede is set in a fictional town based on Wirksworth. The earliest record of the name is in the Latin text of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, where Bede wrote Elge. As Bede later implied, language was a key indicator of ethnicity in early England. For the early part of the work, up until the Gregorian mission, Goffart feels that Bede used Gildas's De excidio. Not all his output can be easily dated, and Bede may have worked on some texts over a period of many years. Bede also appears to have taken quotes directly from his correspondents at times. Bede relates that the bishops particularly consulted a hermit on how to respond. Some of the best known are Cuthbert, Columba, Patrick, Margaret, Edward the Confessor, Mungo, Thomas More, Petroc, Bede, and Thomas Becket. Show More Sentences Bede is also concerned to show the unity of the English, despite the disparate kingdoms that still existed when he was writing. Bede was from the north of England, and this may have led to a bias towards events near his own lands. The royal baptism probably took place at Canterbury but Bede does not mention the location. Bede was writing over a hundred years after the events he was recording with little contemporary information on the actual conversion efforts. Higham argues that Bede designed his work to promote his reform agenda to Ceolwulf, the Northumbrian king. Bede may also have worked on one of the Latin bibles that were copied at Jarrow, one of which is now held by the Laurentian Library in Florence. Bede is somewhat reticent about the career of Wilfrid, a contemporary and one of the most prominent clerics of his day. Bede implies that in the time of Augustine of Canterbury, British churches used a baptismal rite that was in some way at variance with the Roman practice. According to sources such as the History of Bede, after the invasion of Britannia, the Angles split up and founded the kingdoms of Northumbria, East Anglia, and Mercia. The See of York was elevated to an archbishopric in 735, and it is likely that Bede and Ecgbert discussed the proposal for the elevation during his visit. Bede wrote scientific, historical and theological works, reflecting the range of his writings from music and metrics to exegetical Scripture commentaries. Bede would also have been familiar with more recent accounts such as Eddius Stephanus's Life of Wilfrid, and anonymous Lives of Gregory the Great and Cuthbert. According to Bede, it was the last area of the country to be converted. Bede quotes from several classical authors, including Cicero, Plautus, and Terence, but he may have had access to their work via a Latin grammar rather than directly. Bede also had correspondents who supplied him with material. Bede quoted his sources at length in his narrative, as Eusebius had done. Bede painted a highly optimistic picture of the current situation in the Church, as opposed to the more pessimistic picture found in his private letters. Bede was a Northumbrian, and this tinged his work with a local bias. Bede wrote some works designed to help teach grammar in the abbey school. It is here, and only here, that he ventures some criticism of St Cuthbert and the Irish missionaries, who celebrated the event, according to Bede, at the wrong time. Show More Sentences There is no doubt that Bede did believe in miracles, but the ones he does include are often stories of healing, or of events that could plausibly be explained naturally. It is possible that the courts were as different as their descriptions makes them appear but it is more likely that Bede omitted some of the violent reality. According to Bede, Hengist manipulated Vortigern into granting more land and allowing for more settlers to come in, paving the way for the Germanic settlement of Britain. The first Englishman to mention the story was Bede and he seems to have taken it, not from native texts or traditions, but from The Book of the Popes. According to Bede, the Jutes were one of the three most powerful Germanic peoples of their time in the Nordic Iron Age, the other two being the Saxons and the Angles. Bede places the homeland of the Jutes on the other side of the Angles relative to the Saxons, which would mean the northern part of the Jutland Peninsula. Bede is not using ethnicity in the same manner as a modern reader. Indeed, Bede himself may not have been an ethnically 'pure' Angle. It is not clear if Bede meant that Augustine rebuilt the church or that Augustine merely reconsecrated a building that had been used for pagan worship. These guests retired early to confer with their people, who, according to Bede, advised them to judge Augustine based upon the respect he displayed at their next meeting. When Bede wrote his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, he adapted Gildas' narrative and added details, such as the names of those involved. The principal documentary source for the early period of the kingdom's history is Ecclesiastical History of the English People, written by Bede in the eighth century. Although Penda does not appear in Bede's list of great overlords it would appear from what Bede says elsewhere that he was dominant over the southern kingdoms. As evidence of their teaching, Bede reports that some of their students, who survived to his own day were as fluent in Greek and Latin as in their native language. The Latin term villa regia which Bede used of the site suggests an estate centre as the functional heart of a territory held in the King's demesne. Bede represented the native British church as wicked and sinful. Bede relates that after the mission's arrival in Kent and conversion of the king, they were allowed to restore and rebuild old Roman churches for their use. When Augustine failed to rise to greet the second delegation of British bishops at the next meeting, Bede says the native bishops refused to submit to Augustine. Bede uses the story of Augustine's two meetings with two groups of British bishops as an example of how the native clergy refused to cooperate with the Gregorian mission. The Galilee Chapel also holds the remains of the Venerable Bede. Show More Sentences The native Picts, according to the medieval writer Bede, were converted in two stages, initially by native Britons under Ninian, and subsequently by Irish missionaries. This source is highly influenced by the contemporary concerns of its writer, but does attempt to provide some new material besides reworking Bede. Bede is silent on the subject of Wilfrid's monastic status, although Wilfrid probably became a monk during his time in Rome, or afterwards while he was in Gaul. Bede attributes Wilfrid's ability to convert the South Saxons to his teaching them how to fish, and contrasts it with the lack of success of the Irish monk Dicuill. The fall of Roman Britain at the beginning of the fifth century, according to Bede, allowed an influx of invaders from northern Germany including the Angles and Saxons. With the release of the incredibly popular Adam Bede, speculation increased, and there was even a pretender to the authorship, one Joseph Liggins. Bede obviously identified Gildas' stone wall as Hadrian's Wall, but he sets its construction in the 5th century rather than the 120s, and does not mention Hadrian. Northumbria's patron saint, Saint Cuthbert, was a monk and later abbot of the monastery, and his miracles and life are recorded by the Venerable Bede. A major source for West Saxon events is the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, written about 731 by Bede, a Northumbrian monk and chronicler. Elmet is chiefly attested in toponymic and archaeological evidence, references in early Welsh poetry, and historical sources such as the Historia Brittonum and Bede. In 1897 Walpole senior was appointed principal of Bede College, Durham, and Hugh was moved again, to be a day boy for four years at Durham School. Bede himself used it in this context, among others, referring for example to Peada, Penda's son and the underking of the Middle Saxons, as a princeps. This may well be unavoidable between South Gosforth and Sunderland, but he must be aware that single-track operation is a permanent feature between Pelaw and Bede. Mrs M Perkins, Jackwood Green, Bede Village, Hospital Lane, Bedworth. Examples from Classical Literature Bede gives to Anglesey the size of 960 families, to Man that of 300 or more. Not only was the industry of Bede most extraordinary, but his character and disposition were most lovely. It is fortunate that on this point we have the unexceptional testimony of Bede himself. Of its origin and early history we have no record except the bare statement of Bede that its settlers were of the Old Saxon race. Bede tells that the saint bore the united name of Columbkill. He was haggard and unshaven, as he had been yesterday, but he stood upright again, and looked more like the Adam Bede of former days. For 30 years Vince Rea ran the Bede Gallery in Springwell Park in Jarrow, which he converted from a Cold War bunker. Bede tells us that there were three different branches of this race. Bede had translated the Gospel of St. John, but this work is lost. A Gargoyle has the superb cheek to ask a Bede to be his errand-boy! Bede House has two car parking levels, an upper deck with 36 spaces and a lower deck with 45 spaces. Their father, Matthias Bede, was drowned in the Willow Brook last night, not far from his own door. Bede was a Northumbrian priest in the time of the heptarchy. But Bede villagers decided to continue with the sessions with the help of activities manager Louise Smith, who has a huge interest in art herself. Bede is a developer of X-ray diffraction, X-ray reflectivity and X-ray fluorescence technology for semiconductor research, process development and manufacturing. Yesterday, the ULT and ESF, which includes Emmanuel College in Gateshead and Bede Academy in Blyth, Northumberland, jointly announced they were to go their separate ways. Find more words! 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