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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: 670, 670s architecture, 670s births, 670s deaths, 670s establishments, 671, 672, 673, 674, 675, 676, 677, 678, 679, Bede, Malmesbury Abbey, Mosque of Uqba, Wihtred of Kent, Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey, Ripon Cathedral, Jinshin War, Battle of Two Rivers, Cenwalh of Wessex, Li Anqi, Escomb Church, Siege of Constantinople, Abdallah ibn Abd al-Malik, Remaclus, Zhao Renben, Sakinah bint Husayn, List of state leaders in 670, List of state leaders in 671, List of state leaders in 672, Tanzan Shrine, List of state leaders in 675, List of state leaders in 673, List of state leaders in 674, List of state leaders in 679, List of state leaders in 676, List of state leaders in 678, List of state leaders in 677, Battle of the Trent, Seaxburh of Wessex, Council of Hertford, Third Council of Braga, Eleventh Council of Toledo. Excerpt: Bede (pronounced "Bead" /; Old English: 672 / 673 - 26 May 735), also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede (Latin: ), was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow (see Wearmouth-Jarrow), both in the Kingdom of Northumbria. Bede's monastery had access to a superb library which included works by Eusebius and Orosius among many others. He is well known as an author and scholar, and his most famous work, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People) gained him the title "The Father of English History." In 1899, Bede was made a Doctor of the Church by Leo XIII, a position of theological significance; he is the only native of Great Britain to achieve this designation (Anselm of Canterbury, also a Doctor of the Church, was originally from Italy). Bede was moreover a skilled linguist and translator, and his work with the Latin a...
