Albert calculates that Bede spent 20 years researching the Ecclesiastical History, corresponding with abbots and bishops across the British Isles.

FOR GENERATIONS of Oxford undergraduates, the Venerable Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People provided an introduction to the discipline of history. Since my own first encounterwith it that way nearly 60 years ago, it hasbeen a constant companion and starting pointfor excursions into the early Christian storyof the British Isles.

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