![]() The following text was adapted by Michael Newton from the edition of Sellar, Bede’s Ecclesiastical History. Bede built on Gildas’s condemnation of British chieftains, depicting the Angli as God’s new chosen people whose invasion into Britain served as punishment for the sins of the Britons.86 Bede thus acts as a strong advocate on behalf of the English and their interests. ![]() Bede mentions all of the major ethnic groups then in Britain: Britons, Picts, Gaels, and Anglo-Saxons (whom he lumps together as Angli, thus facilitating a unified identity) and draws upon a wide variety of sources and traditions. He is now often considered the father of English history for his book Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum “Ecclesiastical History of the English People,” which he finished in 731. Bede (673-735) was an Anglo-Saxon monk based in Northumbria. ![]()
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