For 10 points, name this Anglo-Saxon author of the Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
His pupil Egbert founded a school in York, and as a youth he was cared for by Benedict Biscop. The reckoning of Easter was the subject of this man's "Of Times" and "On the Reckoning of Time," and he wrote on the life of St. Cuthbert. His most noted work traced the history of a certain polity to the arrival of St. Augustine in Kent, and he originated the practice of dating events from the time of Christ's birth. For 10 points, name this Anglo-Saxon author of the Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
His pupil Egbert founded a school in York, and as a youth he was cared for by Benedict Biscop.
the Venerable {Bede}