This work briefly celebrates the poetic skills of Caedmon and the long tenure of Hilda, abbess of Heruteu.
This work briefly celebrates the poetic skills of Caedmon and the long tenure of Hilda, abbess of Heruteu. Among the saints catalogued are the martyr Alban, the eyes of whose executioner popped out upon his beheading, and Cuthbert, whose tomb cured a man of paralysis. Dedicated to King Ceolwulf, it also details the conversion of Edwin and his kingdom of Northumbria to Christianity. For ten points, what was this first account of Anglo-Saxon history as written by the Venerable Bede?
This work briefly celebrates the poetic skills of Caedmon and the long tenure of Hilda, abbess of Heruteu.
An Ecclesiastical History of the English People  or Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum