Bede's history of England, with a particular focus on the Christian Churches and the conflict between Roman and Celtic Christianity. Completed in 731, this work established Bede as the "father of English history".

Bede (672/673 - 26 May 735), also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede, was an English monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow (see ...