history, and according to some scholars has played a key role in the development of an English national identity.

Overview

The Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, or An Ecclesiastical History of the English People, is Bede's best-known work, completed in about 731. The first of the five books begins with some geographical background and then sketches the history of England, beginning with Julius Caesar's invasion in 55 BC. A

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