{"id":3354,"date":"2022-02-07T15:17:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T15:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2022-02-17T10:45:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T10:45:41","slug":"bede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/middle-ages\/bede\/","title":{"rendered":"Bede"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Famous Anglo Saxon chronicler (673 &#8211; 735). Known as the Venerable Bede. Born in Northumbria and lived most of his life in the monastery in Jarrow. A prodigious scholar who was fluent in Latin and Greek, amongst others. He quietly wrote a history of the British entitled &#8220;The Ecclesiastical History of the British People&#8221; &#8211; which he finished in 731. <br><br><meta charset=\"utf-8\">&#8220;The Ecclesiastical History of the British People&#8221; covered the period of English history 54 BC to 597 AD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This important book was translated into English by <a href=\"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/middle-ages\/king-alfred-the-great\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3571\">Alfred the Great<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was due to Bede that we now use A.D ( anno domini ) to signify the years after the birth of Christ. He was also a scientist of some note.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His tomb is in Durham Cathedral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famous Anglo Saxon chronicler (673 &#8211; 735). Known as the Venerable Bede. Born in Northumbria and lived most of his life in the monastery in Jarrow. A prodigious scholar who was fluent in Latin and Greek, amongst others. He quietly wrote a history of the British entitled &#8220;The Ecclesiastical History of the British People&#8221; &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3579,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions\/3579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}