Ecclesiastical History of the English People The Ecclesiastical
History of the English People (in Latin, Historia ecclesiastica
gentis Anglorum ) is a work in Latin by the Venerable Bede on
the history of the Christian church in England and of England
generally. The History includes many saints' lives as well as
descriptions of other major events in English Christianity, and
it is considered one of the most important primary sources on
Anglo-Saxon history. It is believed to have been written in 731,
when Bede was approximately 60 years old. - Bede, Ecclesiastical
History of the English People, excerpts (from the Internet
Medieval Sourcebook)