BEDE: THE MAN WHO INVENTED ENGLAND (PB)

What is England, and who are the English? The man who first posed and answered these questions lived 1,200 years ago in Northumberland. The Venerable Bede spent almost his whole life in two monasteries looking over the North Sea. There he became the foremost scholar of the first millennium, writing a history that continues to illuminate the Dark Ages. Based on the most up-to-date research, and historical and archaeological evidence, this book pieces together Bede’s life and those of the monks, nuns, warriors, kings, farmers and merchants who were his contemporaries.