“He who will learn to read with credit and advantage, must not fix his eye so much upon the letter, as upon the meaning of what he reads.”

About Venerable Bede

Historian • English

The Venerable Bede was an English Benedictine monk at the monastery of St. Peter and its companion monastery of St. Paul in the Kingdom of Northumbria. He is widely regarded as the 'Father of English History' for his...

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